#declinism

[activitesparanormales]

Mémoires du Futur / Terres Occidentales

Rise and fall of the Western Empire

david hauguel 2023

[thesteveyates]

In Decline.

The monthly Pole Dance post. Why Samuel Barber’s Adagio in B minor might be my theme tune this month. ……And then things got strange……. Iv’e had a really bad day although one that, ultimately, was rescued by a kindly farmer with a gert big pick up truck… The day here started with a minor accident : my partner sat on her glasses which resulted in us having to go into town to get them repaired –…

In Decline.

[circleheads-art-world]

A sheet expressing your rosy retrospection biases

[rashmeerl]

Is America doomed?

Some say the US is in a superpower death spiral like the one that hit post-empire Britain. The signs of decline are there – but so are some

[ricardodsanchez]

A note on boredom, anonymity, and declinism

A note on boredom, anonymity, and declinism

It’s interesting to see how the amount of ennui in our society increases simultaneously as technology advances. We are doing something wrong. Technology and its rapid advancement can be not only distracting but dangerous.  Is this contributing to the declinism of our society? I think it is, and my only advice is to be more empathetic and caring of others around you.  The abundance of digital…

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[surroundedbytheworld]

Why every year—but especially 2020—feels like the worst ever

Unfettered media consumption skews our perception of the present. Here’s how to break the cycle.

by Rebecca Renner (National Geographic, 2020)

[sociolingarticles]

The Prodigal Tongue, review: why we should all learn to embrace ‘American English’

Lynne Murphy’s book offers a forensic but entertaining demolition of some of the myths and assumptions that “British English” advocates in particular take to be empirical facts.