Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Culture

What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.

  • The way we refer to technophobic people as luddites isn’t just wrong. It is doing the work of the people the luddites fought against.

  • Algorithms claim to help us engage with what we love but often create a self-reinforcing feedback loop instead.

  • It is easy to recognize why confusion is a problem. What we often fail to recognize is its benefit. And precisely WHO benefits from it.

  • The greatest mistake of the postmodern era is thinking we have let go of modernist thinking. But it is still everywhere.

  • There’s a reason the way we talk about equality in the 21st Century isn’t working. It is because it isn’t supposed to.

  • The ratcheting effect of ever increasing the expectations of productivity on our kids is destroying our humanity.