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Donald Ian Rankin
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Sun Aug-29-10 08:59 AM Original message |
| Why do authority figures so often wear silly hats? |
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It seems to be a universal human impulse - as far as I can tell, it's cropped up completely independently in a great many cultures. Why should "this person is important, and so we will put something ludicrous on their head to indicate that they are worthy of respect" be a natural way of thinking? I mean, obviously adding height is part of it, but it seems to go further than that...     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Double_crown.svg  |
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