Settling Down

With extreme behavior seemingly affecting nearly every walk of life, from politics to social media and from meme stock investments to cryptocurrencies, it might be a strange time to suggest that extremes are losing their appeal. In gathering observations of Americans settling down after an era of excess, we have pieced together four kinds of shifts from extremes: From Intensity to Practicality; From Extremes to Moderation; From Speculation to Stability; and From Rationalizing to Discipline. Together with the extremes that comprise what we have called Uncharted Territory, American society is slowly turning away from its recent burst toward extreme practices to Settling Down to focus on the details of reality.