Tag: singles epidemic

Clockwise, from upper left: Clint Eastwood, Rod Stewart, Charles Lindbergh, and Elon Musk.

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Case Studies of Polygamous White Men

Although white men have probably been the most monogamous historically, not all exhibit the phenotype:

1. Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean, sired six children with his American wife, Anne Morrow, in addition to a combined five children to two women from Bavaria, as well as two with Valeska, an East Prussian aristocrat who was his private secretary in Europe. (more…)

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“The [scariest] shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Albert Allen Bartlett

To procreate, people need to be sociable enough to meet someone and decisive enough to choose them. Similarly, to make money they need to pick a career and shut out all other options. Such people excel in getting into power and then idiotically doing nothing as the world collapses around them. (more…)

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There is a time for us to wander.
When time is young and so are we.
The woods are greener over yonder.
The path is new, the world is free.
There is a time when leaves are fallin’.
The woods are gray, the paths are old.
The snow will come when geese are callin.’
You need a fire against the cold.
— The Dillards, “There is a Time,” 1963 (more…)