Archedelia

Archedelia

The origins of social order

Fighting and playing

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Matthew B. Crawford
Sep 10, 2025
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A lot of young men seem to be stuck on their couches in a stupor of screens, unable to launch a life. One could point to any number of contributing factors, material and psychological. Surely one of them is that the basic engine of male aspiration – competition -- has fallen under suspicion in our egalitarian moral landscape.

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