Culture and Transmission
How meaning propagates.
Some ideas stick. Most don't. Why? Pascal Boyer figured out the cognitive science: minimally counterintuitive concepts hit a sweet spot between familiar and strange that makes them catchable. Myths aren't primitive science — they're compression algorithms for coherence instructions.
Cognitive Mythology
Myths aren't failed science. They're successful compression algorithms.
Every culture develops stories about heroes descending into underworlds, tricksters disrupting order, mothers protecting childr
Digital Folklore
Memes spread like myths. Fandoms function like religions. World-building creates coherence when reality feels chaotic. Digital platforms aren't just communication tools—they're mythic ecosystems, bree
Neo-Animism
For most of modern anthropology's history, when indigenous people said the forest was alive, the mountain had intentions, or animals were persons, researchers nodded politely and then explained what t
Dark Personality Science
The systematic study of traits that predict exploitation and manipulation — narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism. How certain personalities parasitize cooperative structures.
Propaganda and Persuasion Science
Hub page for propaganda series
Science Fiction as Mirror
Hub page for science fiction series - why sci-fi tracks scientific paradigms
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