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Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism

Conversations with Tyler

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Does the Popularity of Connier Mean We're Moving Away From Decadence?

The popularity of cone suggests we're moving away from decadence, or is that a kind of placibo we use to insulate ourselves from dynamism? Oh, i like cone. And then we go about being decadent. That's probably a little bit of both. I think you can see this in politics right where, when i started writing the book, kind of a long time ago, now, the populist moment hadn't really arrived in the western world. So one of the questions hanging over the argument is, does the populous moment, that decadence is coming to an end?"

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