literally, my thought designing this party was “i love rationalists, but i dont wanna go to another party where they just talk about stuff like global trade. i’m gonna try to design a situation where there’s no possible way they will talk about global trade” https://t.co/YUUlNUa77P

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) March 27, 2021

Naked prudes are still prudes; can’t change a culture by just altering an external facet. It’s much harder and takes far longer than that.

People are in general much more boring than they were in the 1980s and early 1990s (and I understand even more the case in the 1970s, but I wasn’t old enough). Part of that is the difference in the cohort I was around. Upper middle class people are just more humdrum and uninteresting in general, but part of it is real deep cultural change, and quite a lot of it.