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The day the world didn't end
1/ My friend Jon Haidt @JonHaidt has written the MOST important article you can read today...
"Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid––it's not just a phase" https://t.co/8cx6uIiMnE
The Decline of Deviance
experimental-history.comThey feared social collapse, a Great Tribulation, but in a sense they were both its products and its agents. Mainstream American society had stopped providing them with a plausible story: army service was demoralizing, the churches had nothing to say to them, materialism could not fill the gap, and all around them were signs of decay. The oldest
... See moreJohn Ganz • When the Clock Broke
In her 2021 novel Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler pokes fun at what she sees as a propensity to wallow in self-loathing and impotence: “the popular turn to fatalism could be attributed to self-aggrandizement and an ignorance of history, history being characterized by the population’s quickness to declare apocalypse finally imminent despite its... See more
Dorian Lynskey • ‘End of the World Vibes’: Why Culture Can’t Stop Thinking About Apocalypse
***seeking a vibe at the end of the world***
i wanted to start this by saying that “i’ve been thinking about the end of the world lately” but it's hard to make that sound not… dramatic. pretentious. but it is true (though not the ‘lately’ bit). i've been here a long time. not so much thinking about the fact of the world ending, but the period
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