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Field Notes #1: The Collapse of Social Intelligence

Field Notes #1: The Collapse of Social Intelligence

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How Emotional Pandering, Cognitive Regression, and Viral Triviality Are Replacing Maturity with Spectacle

Author’s note: This piece is not about etiquette. It’s about cognition, regression, and the infrastructure of discernment.

There’s something uniquely horrifying about watching a culture not only spiral into cognitive regression but then defend it as p…

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