Support for gay marriage has dropped 11 percentage points, which Joe Rogan attributes to overreach and corporate virtue-signalling alienating people who were otherwise supportive.
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Dillon dates the inflection point to around 2014: before that, technology broadly improved life; after that, it became cold and impersonal. His touchstone is a McDonald's where there's no human at the counter, just a touchscreen and a nine-year-old having a breakdown about his McFlurry. Rogan adds the pressure of infinite opinions: the internet demands people have fully formed, correct views on every global atrocity at all times, and then feel guilty about having the wrong views. The old alternative — being very good at one thing in a local community, free from opinion-formation about distant horrors — is gone. Rogan's anxiety meter thought experiment is sharp: it would spike sharply with the internet's arrival and go near-vertical with social media.
Greenberg's research mapped all human intrinsic values and found they cluster into 22 categories, including longevity, connection, nature, and spirituality.
Performing composure is not the same as having composure — emotionally sensitive people who suppress their feelings are acting a role, not resolving the underlying feeling.
Emotional sensitivity is the raw input signal and emotional intelligence is the cultivated output — meaning sensitivity is a prerequisite for high EQ, not an obstacle to it.
Men who appear emotionally avoidant are frequently emotionally sensitive individuals who were never given tools or permission to explore their sensitivity, so they default to withdrawal.
Being ghosted is particularly damaging for sensitive people because their brain doesn't interpret it as the relationship ending — it interprets it as evidence of personal insufficiency.
Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety as 'the dizziness of freedom' predates Freud's psychological framework by roughly 60 years, yet modern research has since validated his core claims about commitment and identity.
Between 2003 and 2020, Americans accumulated roughly 24 extra hours per month spent alone — the equivalent of a part-time job's worth of isolation, and that's before the pandemic.
Median age at first marriage climbed from 21 (women) and 23 (men) in the 1970s to nearly 29 (women) and 30 (men) today — a rise of 6–8 years per gender, extending the 'emerging adulthood' liminal phase.
San Francisco's average rent rose 18% over the past two years to $3,728/month, surpassing New York City as the most expensive rental market in the country.
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