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Modernity's Decline

Third Way Mania: A Revolt Against the Binary Brain?

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Eric Scheske
Jul 28, 2025
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This modern world’s got a fever, and it ain’t for more cowbell.

It’s for third alternatives.

Everybody’s itching for that elusive other option, like it’s the last ticket out of a burning city. Ray Oldenburg lit a fuse back in ’89 with The Great Good Place, preaching the gospel of “third spaces”: not the soul-crushing office, not the stifling classroom, b…

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