I mourn the loss of decorum

At one point, the society was functional and decorous. As we became dysfunctional, we used decorum as a veneer to hide the ugliness

Now it's mask off, and everyone from the beggar to the king speaks and behaves in a vulgar manner

It signals a further fall until we find grace once again

Interesting to think as a cost of an increase in individual freedom

Design

Ah, right. I remember reading into this a lot in previous years when I was doing some freelance graphic design work.

This goes in parallel with ever increasing time on screens which are hyper competitive for real estate and attention.

This feels like the textbook example of where things are headed:

Feels like that need not be the case though?

Like we made significant progress toward liberty while retaining class for the better part of the 1900s

I think it's more coupled with speed of information. Reduction ends up being the only viable strategy and everything else goes

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Well I think it’s mostly because of…*thud*…*dragging*…*muffled sounds*

Feels like that need not be the case though?

Like we made significant progress toward liberty while retaining class for the better part of the 1900s

I think it's more coupled with speed of information. Reduction ends up being the only viable strategy and everything else goes

https://warpcast.com/sdv.eth/0xb239d9b4

Yea this is what I see. 

Individual freedom >> higher variance 

Also, we might’ve just been in a unique moment in time post WWII and this is actually more the norm, idk.

It usually ends up having the opposite effect. The institutions that guarantee individual freedoms work because we keep the forms