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I Have a Theory

I Have a Theory

On credentialed bullshitting + faux-intellectual home décor + racist science of the mind. 

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Anyone who has ever had dinner and/or drinks with me can tell you that I always have a theory. 

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These aren’t theories in the academic sense of the word. They do not predict anything or provide testable hypotheses. They do not interpret an artifact or deconstruct any social categories. I don’t even …

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