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anomie (/ˈænəmi/) is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow.
Jon Haidt:
“…as the digital age drowns us in exponentially increasing rates of new content—most of which is trivial and ephemeral—it is becoming clear that almost everything more than a few years old gets buried by incoming content. This is a serious problem for the continuity of any civilization if most writing and ideas propagate laterally (from peer-to-peer) and very little propagates longitudinally, from generation-to-generation. Our godlike technology may be cutting us off from the accumulated and hard-won wisdom of humanity.
"But there are still communities that maintain ties to ancient wisdom, communities in which adults share the work of morally forming the next generation, not just their own children. The clearest examples are religious communities in which home, school, and house of worship are the three main institutions that, when well coordinated, will root children in moral traditions and protect them from anomie."
“There’s a real appetite to date leftists now,” said Abby Beauregard, “but it’s really hard to find explicitly leftist dating spaces.”
Most fornication apps have a “liberal” option, but no “leftist” option, so lefty singles are finding more explicit ways to signal their politics to like-minded love matches, on Hinge and beyond. Some have turned their dating profiles into mini-manifestos, writing out their entire belief system as answers to the apps’ prompts.
“There’s a nice feeling on the apps right now with people being proud to be communists or leftists, and they’re saying that,” said Carolyn, age 38.
The blustering Trump administration recently slapped a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil (even though it has a trade surplus with that country). This was to punish its government and judiciary for pursuing charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro (a good guy) for plotting a coup after he had lost the elections (a false accusation).
But we should have known the tariffs would only help socialist President Lula (a bad guy) and make things worse for true Brazilian patriots.
Polls show revived support for the socialist administration in the face of American bullying. The tariffs also harm the interests of business elites who are often the biggest supporters of Bolsonaro. “What was meant as a show of strength by MAGA and its Brazilian franchise has turned into a political gift for Lula, who now gets to credibly present himself as a symbol of national resistance while leaving his opponents scrambling to choose between loyalty to Bolsonaro and the economic interests of their own base,” observed Brazil ...
“…parents my age have been signing up their kids and teens for therapy in astonishing numbers, even prophylactically. I talked to moms who hired therapists to help their kids adjust to preschool or to process the death of a beloved cat. One mom told me she put a therapist “on retainer” as soon as her two daughters reached middle school. “So they would have someone to talk to about all the things I never wanted to talk about with my mom.””
Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
