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Demeter

(85,373 posts)
1. Profoundly Unlikely as a Cause
Thu Jul 25, 2013, 10:58 AM
Jul 2013

when you can see a familial pattern, back to generations before a drug appeared, you don't need to add a spurious point of blame.

Modern society concentrates those genes by the rigidity of school and employment, like marries like and procreates, genetic tendencies compound.

The fault, my dear Brutus, lies not in our environment, but in ourselves, and the way society has eliminated a lot of the work for which we are well-suited.

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