Hermann left inner bad we because he wanted freedom. He longed to experience life on the outside. The thing that finally pushed him over the edge was just the hardship of life on the inside. Every year more people are leaving inner bad we and permanently relocating to outer bad we. Outers are more and more welcoming of modernity in spite of their rules.
In 2022 global inflation spiked at a rate not seen in decades. A look at the world’s very
first such bout reveals eerie echoes of today’s woes—and lessons for tackling them. Our correspondent meets Indonesia’s Baduy people, for whom
modernity is encroaching on strict religious and ascetic ways. And our data team finds that
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