Society

Meta-Meta-Meta-Contrarian Woke

Iterated thesis → antithesis → synthesis ⚖️

Oct 3, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Attachment to public institutions is suboptimal but culturally important 🔋

Sep 19, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

The Enduring Prestige of Belle Époque Institutions

How the turn-of-the-20th-century European golden age still matters 🏅

Aug 9, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

The First Culture Warriors

Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and the ripple effects of cultural conflict 𓁪

Jul 31, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Four Ages of the Olympic Ideal

Towards a vision of pro-progress Olympics 🥏

Jul 24, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Against Against Food Waste

Like many bad things, it is a symptom of something good 🥑

May 31, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

The Unbearable Simplicity of Dystopia

And utopia, for that matter 🖥️

Mar 28, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Crashing Into Something or Someone, Perhaps Repeatedly and Only for Fun

Risky play as a coordination problem 🤼

Feb 2, 2024 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

All Slopes Are Slippery, Also None of Them Are Actually Slopes

Society as a vast expanse of ice 🏂

Dec 8, 2022 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Bad News Is Good News

Always remember that bad news are unusual, not the default 🗞

Nov 10, 2022 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Our Intuitions About Non-Existence Are Pretty Terrible

Oblivion is a shoddy foundation for philosophical takes 0️⃣

Nov 3, 2022 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Reinvent the Wheel

AWM #97: There's really no other option 🛞

Sep 22, 2022 • Étienne Fortier-Dubois

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