STRAIGHT FACE

A conversation about The Etiquette Erosion — examining how we deleted the social scripts that made shared space bearable, turned basic courtesy into optional effort and enforcement into aggression. We didn't abolish manners. We just forgot what they were for. Source essay: The Etiquette Erosion (or the strange death of manners) https://straightface.substack.com/p/the-etiquette-erosion

A conversation about The Performance of Being Real — examining how we turned authenticity into a genre, vulnerability into content and privacy into a personality flaw. If everyone’s “just being real,” why does it all feel so rehearsed? Source essay: The Performance of Being Real (or the strange death of authenticity) https://straightface.substack.com/p/the-performance-of-being-real

A conversation about The Rise of Infantilism — an essay examining how adulthood quietly stopped being expected in workplaces, institutions and public life. When discomfort is reclassified as harm and resilience as cruelty, what replaces self-regulation, responsibility and standards? And what happens when nobody is required to cope anymore? Source essay: The Rise of Infantilism (or the strange deat...