Robert Lynch

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

Here is my new essay about my eighty-three-year-old mother's daily rituals of thrift — and what her generation understood about the value of not always getting what you want that mine has lost.

https://t.co/6V00pKSVUc

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

New chapter from my book:
What Is Funny? It’s Funny Because It’s True

On laughter, self-deception, Bill Burr, Evolution, farting in a dog’s face, and why jokes reveal what we recognize before we admit it. https://t.co/ENCyKGAdNm

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Why Soccer Is Boring https://t.co/A3H9ISvnME

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

I spent years studying status as a biological anthropologist—and then lost my own.

My third essay on status is out today in Quillette. It’s about theory, humiliation, teaching, and an eighth grader who drew a penis on a 510-million-year-old fossil.

https://t.co/DI2BC47WwW

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

My new article on Substack about why soccer is so boring: https://t.co/e6zwRHRh0i

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The 3rd in a series on downward social mobility and status. https://t.co/3roj8HfIfH

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

This is the second in a series I wrote about downward mobility for the credentialed class — a story that is likely to become much more common as AI eats white-collar work.

https://t.co/RQ5DgPDrfF

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

Here is an essay I wrote called "I Was Wearing a Tutu When I Started Bragging About My PhD." It's an essay about status and downward social mobility. Maybe some of you can relate. https://t.co/MXR5sW1n1O

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

Here is an essay I wrote for Quillette about substitute teaching, status, humiliation, doing the Macarena at a school assembly, and spending the day name-dropping my credentials to people who couldn't possibly care.
https://t.co/3hHBjVz3RC

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

My PhD advisor, Robert Trivers — one of the most important evolutionary biologists since Darwin — died in March. The only major media outlet that noticed was the NY Times but they mischaracterized most of his contributions to science.
Here is a quote from a memorial from my Substack memorial that was republished by Skeptic:
"He was like an alien visiting our planet trying to make sense of our strange habits — why we invest in our children, why we are nice to our friends, why we lie to ourselves."https://t.co/5GnFy9y5AP

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

An article I wrote explaining some of my research on how religion helps preserve social connections amongst relatives. https://t.co/xAgpUtYWK4

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

A new article on how America lost its sense of humor originally published in the Chicago Tribune now on my substack https://t.co/MzvwROjbKd

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@compactmag @ryan_zickgraf Great article. Thanks for writing. This stuff cannot be said enough. What a wasted opportunity

[Robert Lynch @RLynch43576]

Excellent article in Compact about the left’s turn to embrace race at the expense of class. Here’s a quote: “The more you emphasize the disproportionate suffering of particular groups … the more you end up with a politics that accepts inequality as long as it is properly distributed… In a society where the top 10 percent includes people of every background, anti-racism becomes compatible with, even useful to, the concentration of wealth. Class, meanwhile, disappears.” https://t.co/PK1BDjTliP

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On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 3) https://t.co/HBKOcLpP7o

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Here is my latest article on AI and the comfort trap. AI rhetoric swings between utopia and apocalypse. The likeliest outcome, though, may be far less spectacular: AI will give us exactly what we want, turning us into pampered infants living emptier lives, for whom effort itself becomes a kind of torture — a future less like Star Trek or The Terminator and more like WALL-E. Here is the article:

https://t.co/0SoQlmv29D

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How Technology Re-Tribalized Us https://t.co/Oo60iW2BaL