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Jared Barlament
Jared Barlament

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6 hours ago

Gift Cultures Could Save Our Communities’ Futures

How Inevitable Debt Can Tie Communities Together and Protect Our Progeny — The idea of the gift — the gift culture and the gift economy, as a tool of hierarchy and as a social leveler — has captured the imagination of the discipline of anthropology since its inception. Marcel Mauss and his book “The Gift” would become definitive in this study, but…

Anthropology

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Gift Cultures Could Save Our Communities’ Futures
Gift Cultures Could Save Our Communities’ Futures
Anthropology

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1 day ago

Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis

What Karahan Tepe tells us about human beliefs 12,000 years ago — Maybe you’ve heard of Göbeklitepe. The findings, rolling in since the 1990s and accelerating in the 2010s, regarding what amounted to a completely pre-agricultural temple complex with impressive carved artworks of humans and animals and indecipherable symbols which hint at a highly developed and deeply meaningful world-belief system lost to…

History

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Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis
Why the Oldest Human Statue Ever is Displaying Its Penis
History

8 min read


Sep 26

Why Old People Aren’t As Cool Anymore

What it says about the past and what it means for the future — I remember my history teacher in middle school reciting Plato’s famous quote on the youth of ancient Greece: “What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions.” The quote itself is…

Politics

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Politics

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Sep 21

Did We Lose Something Along the Way?

Practicing proper grief in the face of progress — One can argue that humankind, as a singular global community for the first real time ever, has felt pass through them most profoundly for the last few years a wave of grief; a sense that some aspect of human life essential to our antecedents got lost in all the dust…

Future

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Future

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Sep 21

Shrinking Academia After the Information Age

When a good thing gets to be too much to handle — Have you ever gotten the sense that too much of the human effort spent in the sciences is wasted on collecting data that will never go to use? Or that the value and the rightness of collecting all the data possible all the time, in an era where that is…

Information

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Information

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Sep 11

A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History

Expect the unexpected in the 21st century — People like to say that the world is getting weirder; more erratic; harder to define. You could argue that is both the least and the most true right now that it has ever been. What is undeniable is that the rules which used to predictably guide world events up until…

Language

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A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History
A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History
Language

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Aug 17

What Does Our Art Say About Us?

An Honest Analysis of the Mirror Held Up by Modern Media — It should come as no surprise for me to say that art is and has always been reflective of the social values and desires of the day. 18th century Enlightenment values saw the mechanistic and mathematical aspects of the natural order expressed in art through the intricate, geometric and aggrandizing…

Art

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What Does Our Art Say About Us?
What Does Our Art Say About Us?
Art

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Aug 3

Why Gen Z is So Aimless

The largest factors shaping the latest generation — I am not writing this to debate. Nor am I here to recite the evidence, line by line, as shown in studies, polls, statistical data or anything of the sort, because that evidence is already accumulated and available plenty of places elsewhere, and because my perspective is not as a…

Gen Z

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Why Gen Z is So Aimless
Why Gen Z is So Aimless
Gen Z

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May 11

How the World Weaponizes Our Nostalgia Against Us

Hauntology and its pernicious effects on media and thought — It’s not a secret that corporations are manipulating the popular consciousness by profiting off of standardized and reinforced “nostalgic waves” every 20 years or so after a trend’s initial peak. The idea is that any given time, the young people of that time feel a mass sense of nostalgia for…

Philosophy

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How the World Weaponizes Our Nostalgia Against Us
How the World Weaponizes Our Nostalgia Against Us
Philosophy

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May 10

Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”

A window into the mysteries at the end of Rome — Anybody with some baseline knowledge on the Roman Cult of Mithras will know that the central problem in the study of the cult today concerns the identity of Mithras himself. And yet, for several decades from the start of the 20th century, this problem was thought to have been firmly…

Book Review

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Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”
Book Review: “Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God”
Book Review

9 min read

Jared Barlament

Jared Barlament

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Author and essayist from Wisconsin studying anthropology and philosophy at Columbia University.

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