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Ritalin comments on Science, Engineering, and Uncoolness; Here and Now, Then and There - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Ritalin 08 December 2012 07:52PM

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Comment author: Ritalin 09 December 2012 12:12:57AM 3 points [-]

The whole point of spectator-sports is to roleplay war-of-the-tribes. You can't do that as easily with music; even a music battle requires cooperation and harmony on some level, otherwise it's a cacophony.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 December 2012 11:46:42AM *  0 points [-]

Er... have you heard the lyrics to certain metal songs?

Jokes aside, I think you're talking about a different side of the evolutionary-cognitive boundary than I was. (It seems very unlikely that what you say affects Australians differently from other people.)