The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health crisis — associated with depression, cardiovascular disease, even increased mortality risk — and the advice rolled out like clockwork: join a gym, download a friend app, try harder. As though the problem is you. As though fifty years of dismantled civic…
Category: Social Commentary
Culture
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Average Age America and the Long History of Eye-Rolling Youth
The average age of the American population is approximately 39.1 years.* That’s the math. Census tables, life expectancy, delayed adulthood, all of it boiled down into one mildly uncomfortable number. And somehow, that number now comes with judgment. If you’re under 25, anyone born in the 1900s gets treated like a historical…
Humor
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The Glass-Walled Room You Can “Take” — If You Don’t Mind Being Public Art
THE STORY STARTS WITH PEOPLE-WATCHING There’s this moment you get while people-watching — maybe waiting for coffee, maybe in a train station — where you realize everyone has a completely different idea of what “normal behavior” is. Someone’s arguing on speakerphone, someone else is filming a TikTok like gravity doesn’t…