How to Age Up How to Talk to People: ‘Everyone Used to be Nicer,’ And Other Persistent Myths
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Jul 27, 2023 AI Snips
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The Power Of “Again”
- The word “again” in slogans does heavy rhetorical work by implying loss and restorable change.
- Adam Mastriani says that implication makes claims of moral decline emotionally persuasive and politically powerful.
Decline Begins When You’re Born
- People believe decline starts around their birth regardless of actual history.
- Mastriani ties this to memory bias: we lack pre-birth memories and overproject our lifespan on history.
Smartphones And Lost Chance Encounters
- Julie recalls not having a smartphone until 2013 and more frequent street interactions before then.
- She links smartphones to fewer chance encounters with strangers in public life.