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People are less weird than they used to be. From crime rates to cult formation, from scientific breakthroughs to website design, deviance is declining across every sector of society. Adam Mastroianni asks: in becoming safer and richer, have we sacrificed the strange thinking that drives progress?
Religion doesn't vanish overnight. It fades in sequence: Participation drops first, then Importance, finally Belonging. A study of 111 countries reveals this pattern holds across cultures.
James O'Sullivan argues that social media has transformed from a discovery tool into a distraction machine, where billions of users scroll through AI-generated slop not for information but for 'ambient dissociation.'