Chris Arnade: Modern life is good, actually
We could quibble with any individual point or stat in Chris’s essay, but this rings true to me:
It’s interesting that the people most bothered by technology in the West, and most drawn to a prior lifestyle, are the highly individualistic and idiosyncratic intellectuals—not the “normies,” who when given the chance to choose overwhelmingly want the lifestyle anti-modern elites believe is so destructive.