Individualism
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Why Can’t South Asia Move On?
Why does South Asia litigate 2,000-year-old events as though they happened yesterday? Because almost nothing is lost between generations. The cure is neither the past nor the future. It is…
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Society
Conversation with Kushal Mehra on Indic Modernity at The Indic Explorer YouTube Channel
Kushal Mehra of The Carvaka Podcast contrasts Western modernity with how it was shaped in India; the general conclusion was that Indic modernity would proceed by incremental change, not the…
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Why Pakistan is Middle Eastern
Using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, with Egypt as a control for rural, low-income societies, the author argues Pakistan scores like Egypt and unlike India on individualism, uncertainty avoidance and indulgence, and…
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Society
Why tribalism wins
The author asks why tribalism wins, arguing that simple, identity-based ideas spread more easily than complex ones, and suggests guardrails such as skin in the game and incremental, tested interventions…
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Society
Evolution of societies: A Perspective
The author proposes four factors for comparing societies: diversity of thought, scale and conformity, incentives and law, and external threat, and argues social science should study how societies change over…
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Society
‘Master Licensed Locksmith Since 1968’
The author praises an immigrant New York locksmith’s advice that young people learn a useful manual skill rather than chase status goods, seeing in him the American spirit of independence,…
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Society
Why the elite in the Rest yearn for the West
Drawing on his travels, the author argues that elites in the developing world yearn for the West not for wealth but for self-actualisation and individuality, which collectivist societies in the…
