The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Ramones, easily the top punk bands of their day, were all on major record labels and achieved relatively high levels of commercial success. Punk, forever ingrained ideologically as anti-mainstream has, since its inception, been granted credibility by the very mainstream it takes strides to loathe. How punk rock evolved as a subculture is a study not free from controversy.
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Order the book on which this lecture is based from. Modularity suggests that there is no “I.” Instead, each of us is a contentious “we” - a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world. This modular view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions about ourselves. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don’t always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by natural selection. Why? Evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind’s design.
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