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I guess I'm back to a point I made a few days ago: so much of the modern world comes out of ideas from the Axial Age. And yet so much _foundational_ knowledge has changed radically. What's the right order? Or is that the wrong question?
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Just thinking of all the revolutions in dating in the last ~60 years: + The pill + "Free love" + HIV/AIDS & STIs + Dating apps (and those have changed massively, too) + Massively changed norms around sexuality, consent, rights, poly, marriage, etc etc etc
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Actually, a fun idea for a feature article - find some people who remember dating _before_ the contraceptive pill (~1960), but who are on dating apps now, or have been at some point in the past. I wonder if there are any? They'd be ~80+...
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Seems likely there'd be some around. Dating apps go back a long time, & were quite mainstream by the late oughties - so someone might have started dating before the pill, & used a dating app in their late 60s(!!!) It'd be wild to hear their impressions
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Actually, a fun idea for a feature article - find some people who remember dating _before_ the contraceptive pill (~1960), but who are on dating apps now, or have been at some point in the past. I wonder if there are any? They'd be ~80+...
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Realizing this is all related to Tad Homer-Dixon's notion of "the ingenuity gap", the gap between the problems a society has, & the problems it knows how to solve Larger ingenuity gaps mean a lot of big problems poorly addressed Collective future shock widens the ingenuity gap
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