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Poll: Are we on the cusp of a dark age online and/or offline (defined as inward turn of life from public spaces into more private ones, with stronger boundaries everywhere, for at least a generation)?
  • Yes on both fronts
    41%
  • Yes offline, no online
    11.9%
  • No offline, yes online
    21.2%
  • No on both fronts
    25.9%
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Your poll game is off tonight, you usually try to isolate a variable instead of just polling a complicated thesis like this
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An age is characterized by what is cheap, what is expensive, and what is possible. In the future general consensus, even about basic facts, will become more expensive. The cheapness of wide consensus was a weird bubble roughly coeval with the Bretton Woods system. RIP.
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The “new dark age” framework of Bridle and Ballard basically presupposes public outwardness and private inwardness in a way that makes people really, really uncomfortable.
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“[The irrational] offers the only guarantee of freedom from all the cant and bullshit and sales commercials fed to us by politicians, bishops and academics...They yearn for magic and unreason, which served them well in the past and might help them again.” twitter.com/Noahpinion/sta…
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It definitely seems sometimes that people are more and more preferring to stay home and not reach out. But I think that may be changing with the climate movement.