Cowards Manifesto

Why Are We All Cowards?

Linch | 10th July 2025

Wide-ranging discussion of risk. Interesting throughout. There is little doubt that humans are becoming more risk averse. The US's value for a statistical life (now $11.4 million) has more than tripled since 1980, far outstripping life expectancy. Why do we prize safety more? Likely a combination of growing personal wealth, secularisation, smaller families, falling mortality rates, and psychological evolution (4,000 words)

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A Pro-Human Manifesto

Marie Le Conte | Young Vulgarian | 11th July 2025

Slice of memoir that doubles as an argument for resisting the slide into social isolation. The writer was identified as a gifted child young, bullied for it and then later opted to learn how to trust humans again even though "liking people" is not something that came naturally. Whether introverted or extroverted, it is a deliberate choice to move through the world and "feel the warmth of human interaction" (3,300 words)