Chad Aaron Hall

Kaczynski believed modern society made us docile and miserable by depriving us of fulfilling challenges and eroding our sense of purpose. The brain evolved to solve problems, but the problems it had evolved for were now largely solved by technology. Most of us can now obtain all our basic necessities simply by being obedient, like a pigeon pecking... See more

I don't think there's anything wrong with treating productivity literature as leisure reading.

Almost half of all adult Americans under 30 still live with their parents.

The point I’m trying to emphasize here is that while this might seem outright luxurious to us today, there was a time in our city’s history, which lasted many, many decades, when we could afford this. We could afford to pay staff to make even our small neighborhood parks breathtakingly beautiful.

And we continued to afford it through a World War, a... See more

Previous research has found that the initial intuitive evaluation of high-quality art over low-quality art is attenuated in non-ASD groups when experimental manipulation encourages deliberation (Dijkstra et al., 2012). In the present study, reduced discrimination of high- and low-quality art by the autism group is consistent with the Dual Process... See more

We’re all propagandists now.