If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you can have either on or the other. Not both.
-- Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Dette er Hans' blogg. Går i dybden av dagsaktuelle temaer med hyppige oppdateringer. Konvergens og synergi er stikkord.
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you can have either on or the other. Not both.
"I still remember when I cut my hair like this hair in those years, it wasnt common and I remember I had the best time around those years."Hvis jeg noen gang får meg en datter skal jeg farge håret hennes ravnsvart og klippe det i lain-stil.
In the end, however, this is mostly storytelling--lots of possibilities, but much less hard data. What we need to test many of these ideas is detailed records of the total reproductive fitness of sexual minorities in specific social contexts--especially societies approximating the ones formed by our earliest human ancestors. The best we can say without this is that many societal contexts could have made the apparent fitness cost to same-sex attraction smaller than it appears at first glance.