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	<description>Plans, thoughts &#38; projects for an age yet to come.</description>
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		<title>Patience and Connoisseurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bear with me, this post is going somewhere&#8230;
Savage Minds has had some excellent material lately. For example, The Savage and the Subtle, about anthropology as a connoisseurship of life, and trying to communicate that to the wider public rather than astounding differences, because humans really aren&#8217;t that different all over the world, or through time:
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/03/06/patience-and-connoisseurship/</link>
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		<title>Alienation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why am I upset about losing my job? Uncertainty of support system. In a non-industrial society, this sort of situation barely exists.
In other news, I love Bernard Cribbins, or at least his Wilf character.
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		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/02/05/alienation/</link>
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		<title>Value Transmission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess what I&#8217;m saying is, in order for things like this (consensus non-profits) to be the default way we think about things (humanizing our society in general), it&#8217;s not enough to just be the change you want to see in the world, to live as if you&#8217;re already free (both common progressive slogans). Or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/02/04/value-transmission/</link>
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		<title>Mythbuilding the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human nature is not good or bad. It&#8217;s plastic; it&#8217;s nature is to stay alive. Violence is rooted in the realities of evolution and population/resource dynamics. However, if we are aware of this and aware of human capabilities and tendencies, we can make choices based on our values to manage them however we like. Different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/02/04/mythbuilding-the-future/</link>
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		<title>I Was Promised Donuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Awesome counter-protest: San Francisco&#8217;s answer to Westboro Baptist Church
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		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/01/30/i-was-promised-donuts/</link>
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		<title>Last Night I Had A Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a dream where I was going on a date with a girl &#8211; I wore black nylons and a skirt, one of Alex&#8217;s, white with a curvy-line design, except mine was in red while hers is.. purple, I think? I think I thought the girl would like it, but she turned into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/01/29/last-night-i-had-a-dream/</link>
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		<title>Gotham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can divorce in NY over &#8220;physical or sexual abandonment,&#8221; but not over &#8220;social abandonment,&#8221; new ruling determines. Court Rejects Bid to Extend Grounds for Divorce in New York (Gotham Gazette, Jan 2010) &#8211; &#8220;Social interaction between spouses, while certainly important to a healthy marital relationship, receives less legal recognition and protection.&#8221;
Food Deserts Could Bloom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/01/28/gotham/</link>
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		<title>Anthro Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find this &#8220;why is there no anthro journalism&#8221; post amusing since, as I prepare to go get formal computer training &#038; switch careers, but read anthropology voraciously as a hobby of sorts, my mind has toyed with the idea of &#8220;writing about anthro for the general public&#8221; as something I might do. Hmm&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/01/27/anthro-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Applied Linguistic Anthropology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;on a feminist website. (Well, sort of, it&#8217;s more just etymology with a cultural dimension, but anyway.) I love her run-through of trying to explain &#8220;Damn&#8221; and &#8220;pardon my french&#8221; to a non-native speaker. And the concluding paragraphs:
&#8230;if there are words and phrases that I use, but haven&#8217;t actually thought about &#8212; idioms that may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/01/27/applied-linguistic-anthropology/</link>
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		<title>Intellectualism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually, I think this attitude, on both sides, is entirely appropriate.
Since the rise of the social sciences, and the elevation of universities to special status, is something of a strangely Western statist/classist/imperialist phenomenon in general, anyway, the whole notion of intellectualism vs. idiocy is questionable anyway.
In fact, for me it&#8217;s been rather liberating recently to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.damek.org/2010/01/26/intellectualism/</link>
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