POPA ReconThe Decline of Deviance - Where has all the weirdness gone?
The Decline of Deviance - Where has all the weirdness gone? Wealth made life long, safe, and comfortable, so people stopped taking risks, and both bad deviance (crime, drugs, teen pregnancy) and good deviance (weird art, bold science, counterculture) collapsed together since the 1990s The internet accelerated but didn't cause this, that starving for art became irrational once poverty got rare and shameful, and that since weirdness is now a choice, ordinary people must act as tolerant gatekeepers who let good deviance live https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance https:…
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