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Authenticity as Grace

Last week I realized that today’s rapid cultural evolution, mediated greatly by youth movements, seems encouraged by the common modern norm favoring “authenticity”.

Finish The Industrial Revolution, Or Bust

Do you love something historically-unusual about today’s culture?

Many Culture Causes

I asked a set of polls, and 3 LLMs (ChatGPT,Claude,Gemini) to rate the relative explanatory power of the following 16 causes of cultural change for the two periods 1700-1900 and 1900-2025.

How Meaning Makes Suffering

Humans have inherited many ancient values mainly encoded in DNA.