A list of ten ways we are decadent and a (speculative) theory about why it might not matter
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Decadence here means sameness, complacency or boredom, as recently discussed by Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel. Technological stagnation. “Go into a room and subtract off all the screens. How do you then know you’re not in 1973?” Falling birth rates. "Across almost all of the OECD, current fertility rates are well below those needed for population replacement... by 1995 most had rates well below replacement level."
A list of ten ways we are decadent and a (speculative) theory about why it might not matter
A list of ten ways we are decadent and a…
A list of ten ways we are decadent and a (speculative) theory about why it might not matter
Decadence here means sameness, complacency or boredom, as recently discussed by Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel. Technological stagnation. “Go into a room and subtract off all the screens. How do you then know you’re not in 1973?” Falling birth rates. "Across almost all of the OECD, current fertility rates are well below those needed for population replacement... by 1995 most had rates well below replacement level."