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- Peter Thiel: "Choosing agency over boomer complacency, The Decadent Society sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future?" source ↗
Summary
Ross Douthat's argument that the modern West is in a state of 'sustainable decadence' — a stagnation in which innovation has slowed, and the culture is content to recycle the past rather than build the future. A diagnosis of the modern malaise.
For founders
For founders, The Decadent Society is a challenge to the assumption of inevitable progress. It argues that the great opportunities are in the areas where the West has stopped building — a reframe for where the next big companies will come from.