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Culture Clubs
Minsos' philosophy of socialization and culture picks up where Ray Jackendoff's theory of linguistics leaves off.
From linguistics and our contemporary understanding of cognition, the curious observer determines the child's limited experience with socialization cannot explain the child's growing proficiency at socializing. Something innate is helping. Evolution reigns supreme, selection is opportunistically adaptive, and children are born competitive.
Children have innate capacity to play the herding game, Weird Tit-for-Tat, (and not just human children), plus a congenital desire to be heard as an individual: The herd vs the individual is the quiet and relentless story, which underlies every single novel of manners.
"If you have spent any time wondering about human nature and our need to form and belong to groups, this book is for you. Minsos offers a new twist on group dynamics, ranging from the smallest unit of the family to the local community and outward, incorporating the larger multicultural world. Dr. Minsos is confident, feisty, and has a sharp wit as she offers a well substantiated perspective on our game playing."
Claudia Petersmeyer, PhD
The Six Principles of Weird Tit-For-Tat
Neural artificial intelligence (AI) is neither conscious nor
self-conscious. Humans' "pretending"
AI is a self-conscious agent is so threatening
to the existence of Homo sapiens, one feels breathless
just thinking about it.
And if you want to talk about AI's energy use . . .
Daniel Dennett on AI: “The real danger, I think, is not that
machines more intelligent than we are will usurp our role
as captains of our destinies, but that we will
over-estimate the comprehension of our latest thinking tools,
prematurely ceding authority to them far beyond
their competence.”
S. Minsos on AI: A human and an AI chatbot
should NEVER play the matrix socializing game –
Weird Tit-for-Tat.
Humans are boss, now, forever and ever, AMEN.
1.
The shape of a culture club is a triangle (a few dominators regulate many compilors), and the triangle, a graphic of a power structure, exists within the never-ending circle of life. The herd reacts to current affordances – all power structures are the same, only manners differ, culture club to culture club;
2.
One "Race".
3.
No Gods.
4.
Our limbic system does not fight with but complements our intelligence (get your machinations off the limbic, AI.);
5.
Contemporary affordances (the context of what's possible) affect an individual's socio-political choices - who dominates, who complies, who defects;
6.
Female is the biological default.
Culture Clubs
The Real Fate of Societies
Three Rascals Press
Publishing management: Kathy Knowles
Editorial: Nancy Mackenzie
Design: Jaclyn Draker
Index: Judy Dunlop
Content and proofreading: Mary Lou Roy
Art, with permission: Christi Belcourt, Stephen Gibb, Kiff Holland, Kathy Meaney
Project Award 2025
"Distinguished Favorite,"
Philosophy, American Independent Press Awards
Project award 2024: "Finalist" Eduction/Academic
International Next Generation Indie Book Awards
