Topic
sociology
- Protopia
Kevin Kelly argues that utopias and dystopias are each popular in cultural imagination, but both are unlikely to play out. In the case of utopia, literally unattainable. Dystopia is possible, but the Mad Max or Escape…
- Weekend Reading: Dracones, Calendars, and Science 2.0
🐉 Hic Sunt Dracones Adam Elkus with a great essay on the current moment: “Is this as bad as 1968?” is an utterly meaningless question precisely for this underlying reason. People do not invoke 1968 because of the obj…
- Back to the Future
New York Times writer Ross Douthat has a new book out called The Decadent Society, which explores how we've arrived in a period of (in the book's terms) stagnation, repetition, sterility, and sclerosis. This post is a…
- The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
I ran across this piece about a month ago, but avoided it after sensing spoilers for the book I was in the middle of at the time. Is our universe an empty forest or a dark one? If it’s a dark forest, then only Earth i…