June 2022

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

I wrote about the recent broad rise in aggressive and anti-social behavior. I think it is mostly under-discussed, but very apparent when you go outside. Traffic deaths are also up. Unruly passenger incidents on airplanes have surged. Schools report more discipline and student safety issues.

I also write about how we are more alone than ever, but it's also easier to join a crowd now than ever before. What does joining a crowd mean, when people are reporting higher rates of loneliness?

What are the upsides and downsides of being in a crowd?

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Weekend Reads

It's been a few months since the start of the Ukraine war. It's easy to forget it is still even going. Below is a very good visualization on Russian territorial capture since the start.

Ted Goia has a post on how you know you're living in a society without a counterculture.

I've written about refinement culture many times, this video is a decent exploration of it.

America does not build large infrastructure projects quickly anymore. Alan Cole writes about what happened. The original NYC subway was completed faster than the average environmental impact statement.

There's an oddly hypnotizing quality to this McDonalds employee filming himself at work

It's incredible how every American retailer is this deranged and you just don't know it because of the Gmail promotions filter

There was a lot of change in the composition of European populations from 14,000 to 3,000bc. But since then, Europe has had a stable population since about 3,000 years ago.

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