Lindy Newsletter, written by Paul Skallas, offers essays on culture, trends, history and modern life.
HN commenters cite its refinement culture essay to explain how global connectedness reduces variety in things like logos, cars and architecture.
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But OTOH there's a chart on this page that shows a longer term trend of nearly linear growth in US passport holder percentage from the 1990's: https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/japan-gets-there-first-abc5
Feels very related to the idea of refinement culture: https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-culture
While the connectedness of our world allows for great ideas to be spread and shared, there’s a huge reduction in actual variety. I don’t know what the solution is.
Paul Skallas notices this trend as well, and it applies to pretty much everything:
- logos
- cars
- architecture
- even personal appearance
https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-culture
See also "Is Rushing Making Us Dumber?" by LindyMan.
https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/rushing-making-us-dumber