more theory, in theory. but you don't have to read it. it's Christmas.

I Know Why I Haven’t Seen This Before: Sorry, Folks, It’s a Whole New Theory of Everything

Jerry Cullum

Any theory of human society and psychology that is sparked by an almost certainly wrong anthropological theory about tribal cultures in upland South Asia is almost certainly insane. But the theory doesn’t involve space aliens, ineffable revelations, or thoughts that I and only I have had, so maybe it’s worth going past the LJ-cut when you feel sufficiently rested and misguidedly curious. ( ”click!” )

enough! (or, too much)

A Footnote to a New Theory of entirely too much

I guess to do it right I would have to add how globalization has created a planet full of contending cultures such as previously existed only in isolated zones, and I would have to bring my theory into contention against those three books that Everybody Has Read Or Pretends He or She Has Read: Empire, Multitudes, and now Commonwealth.

But cut me some slack, I just now figured out how all this fits together, and I have always had difficulty framing all this in terms of Commonly Accepted Categories, even though it consists of a bunch of commonly accepted categories, just categories commonly accepted in different academic disciplines, which don’t seem to like to converse with one another.