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Analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests Western society is now shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk aversion (media.kotakuinaction2.win)
posted 2 years ago by TaylorLorenz 2 years ago by TaylorLorenz +39 / -0
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– SarcasticRidley 32 points 2 years ago +32 / -0

This is anecdotal, but I generally don't hear "see you later" nearly as much anymore as I do "be safe".

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– KekistanPM 19 points 2 years ago +19 / -0

That phrase always seemed condescending to me. Like if they didn't say it, I would just go out and play in traffic or get lost on a mountain trail on purpose.

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– ghostfox1_ 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

I think part of it is the increasing crime rates again, thanks to dindus run amok

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– ParadigmShift2070 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

You might even relax around blax

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– acp_k2win 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

I'm guessing the trend is caused by more books being written by women, and fewer books written by men.

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– OldBullLee 17 points 2 years ago +17 / -0

The West has been feminized. Chris Rufo's mini documentary "The Cluster B Society" makes this point in a discussion of higher ed and illustrates it well, with a link to a pseudonymous essay entitled "The Longhouse," which argues convincingly that there has been a

remarkable overcorrection of the last two generations toward social norms centering feminine needs and feminine methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior [. . . .] Female approaches to conflict and competition have become normative among the professional class.

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– TeeBP 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

That's what you get with a feminized society.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

Dropping testosterone levels

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– MLGS 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

Weird how so many of these kinds of things just started happening between 1960 and 1970.

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– AntonioOfVenice 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

Is that 1914 where the line goes of caution goes up? Not exactly unreasonable.

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– elleand202 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Yeah it looks like it to me. And the progress line drops off after WWII.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

Decisions by committee are like that.

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– Assassin47 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Some of us don't even want to use the word "progress" any more because progressives dirtied it.

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– alucard13mmfmj 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

"Progress" is expensive.

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– GamingTheSystem-01 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Worry starts to take off with industrialization. Hope in the future takes a dive with the atomic bomb. Checks out.

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– freespeechsquid 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Potentially a good thing for conservative values (and really anyone who hates capital-P Progress for the sake of capital-P Progress) but bad in that it bolsters bureaucratic liability culture, which is not only insufferable but ironically very harmful.

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– realerfunction 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

this was done to us

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