Dear Leo!! I enjoyed reading this. For me, the most intriguing part was about Indonesia. Your comments and questions made it so. Thank you!! (There's a typo in the second paragraph of "Why nationalism?" I think a word is left out.) Here's my response to your writing: "a non-relative would relish it too!!" But more later. Tons of love, Grandmama
Leo omg!!! This just happened to come up on my substack feed, and I love it. So well-written, and I resonated with so much of what you said re: how to spend my time as I gain more flexibility in the PhD.
The breakfast/dinner question is also really stumping me. It could be that people, esp students and 9-5 workers, view breakfast as something to quickly put together in the morning before heading off to school or work -- so it's fine if it repeats. But dinner, at the end of the day, is more indefinite and is more about leisure, so we don't want it to repeat, because we care about enjoyment?
Thank you! That’s very kind. Totally agree. Breakfast maybe is clouded by all the other things that need to come after in the rest of your day, but dinner is focused (so long as you’re not anticipating tomorrow too much…). I think anticipation is very important as well (news utility?).
Do you have reliable data about meal times? I guess breakfast doesn’t vary because most people start work at the same time every day.
Is the polarization because political identity encompasses so many social/cultural norms? I mean you can usually predict a person’s political identity by whether they are religious and or socially liberal, for example. Those social values tend to come with a lot of judgments about those people who don’t share them and who are (often enough) members of the political opposition. This is not the case in other countries, I think.
Dear Leo!! I enjoyed reading this. For me, the most intriguing part was about Indonesia. Your comments and questions made it so. Thank you!! (There's a typo in the second paragraph of "Why nationalism?" I think a word is left out.) Here's my response to your writing: "a non-relative would relish it too!!" But more later. Tons of love, Grandmama
Leo omg!!! This just happened to come up on my substack feed, and I love it. So well-written, and I resonated with so much of what you said re: how to spend my time as I gain more flexibility in the PhD.
The breakfast/dinner question is also really stumping me. It could be that people, esp students and 9-5 workers, view breakfast as something to quickly put together in the morning before heading off to school or work -- so it's fine if it repeats. But dinner, at the end of the day, is more indefinite and is more about leisure, so we don't want it to repeat, because we care about enjoyment?
Thank you! That’s very kind. Totally agree. Breakfast maybe is clouded by all the other things that need to come after in the rest of your day, but dinner is focused (so long as you’re not anticipating tomorrow too much…). I think anticipation is very important as well (news utility?).
Interesting points.
Do you have reliable data about meal times? I guess breakfast doesn’t vary because most people start work at the same time every day.
Is the polarization because political identity encompasses so many social/cultural norms? I mean you can usually predict a person’s political identity by whether they are religious and or socially liberal, for example. Those social values tend to come with a lot of judgments about those people who don’t share them and who are (often enough) members of the political opposition. This is not the case in other countries, I think.