







The culture wars have divided us — this is how we come back together.
They have to be able to talk about us without us - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.



Mother. I'm scared
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A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation
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Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does
Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.

Our Overfitted Century
Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution

A Syrian Immigrant Mother’s Version of a Mac and Cheese
Surely you guys relate to this?
8K votes, 97 comments. 36M subscribers in the memes community. Memes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture…
The New Planetary Nationalism
The realization of human embeddedness in Earth’s natural systems does not inevitably create a cosmopolitan politics oriented toward universal well-being.

A Mother of A Revolution! | omar-thomas
Incels Won the Culture War
Looksmaxxing. Redpilled. Sigma. Mogging. Cope. Seethe. Malding. Goyslop. Gooning. Memes from image boards became cultural foundation for Generation Alpha. …

America’s compact between science and politics is broken
How did we get here?


The Return of the Cutting-Off Way
Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."


Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same