Tag: dysfunction


  • How Contemporary Society Breeds Confusion, Not Connection The Conditional Logic of Human Mating Human mating runs on conditional logic. Robert Trivers laid this out in 1972 with his theory of parental investment: any cost a parent bears that increases one offspring’s survival chances at the expense of investing in other offspring. The sex that invests…

  • Introduction: Two Frontiers of Normlessness Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what nobody in the commentariat will say out loud. We are living through the most fascinating, most dangerous, most diagnostic moment in the sociology of public order since the 1960s. Two frontiers of anomie—one physical, one digital—are converging. And they are converging precisely…