re: American culture seems constipated right now

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Totally agreed but what's the reason for everything stalling out? Society evolving slower in a post 9/11 world? Stronger fiscal fears after 2008? The introduction of social media?

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I don’t know. I think it’s the nature of the digital revolution that has happened over the last 20 years. People and goods largely move around the world exactly the same way today as we did 20 years ago. Perhaps a lot has changed under the hood, but the passenger/driver experience in a car/plane is basically unchanged the last 20 years. Today’s kitchen, today’s buildings, bathrooms, etc are all largely the same. The microwave and refrigerator were lifestyle changing. The green egg and air fryer are niche products.

What has changed is everything moved digitally now, innovation is in software, and all of that is just less perceptible to the built environment.

And the digital world fricking sucks from a human perspective. No good joke has ever started with a priest, a rabbi and a school boy entered a chatroom