I recently said our civ will fall if we do not find finish the industrial revolution, and apply the industry trio of math, big orgs, and capitalism to more areas of life.
Have you tried to publish these ideas in any academic press? I’d like to see them responsive to more scrutiny from those who have worked on cultural evolution
Don’t algorithms made by for profit companies attempt to influence culture? I’m thinking about TikTok’s attempt to suppress politically controversial topics or twitters collaboration with the US government
One trend that runs counter to this narrative is the recent rise in youth attendance at Catholic and Orthodox churches (maybe other conservative Christian denominations too?). Time will tell whether this leads to serious cultural shifts, but my sense is that young people are intuiting that they live in a maladaptive culture and are willing to make serious sacrifices to find a better one. Reminds me of the mass conversions to Orthodoxy among late Soviet liberals (my parents among them).
Have you tried to publish these ideas in any academic press? I’d like to see them responsive to more scrutiny from those who have worked on cultural evolution
Don’t algorithms made by for profit companies attempt to influence culture? I’m thinking about TikTok’s attempt to suppress politically controversial topics or twitters collaboration with the US government
I had intended to mention that; just edited to do so.
One trend that runs counter to this narrative is the recent rise in youth attendance at Catholic and Orthodox churches (maybe other conservative Christian denominations too?). Time will tell whether this leads to serious cultural shifts, but my sense is that young people are intuiting that they live in a maladaptive culture and are willing to make serious sacrifices to find a better one. Reminds me of the mass conversions to Orthodoxy among late Soviet liberals (my parents among them).