#1092 Mads Larsen: Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Mads Larsen. He is a postdoc and researcher at the University of Oslo. And today we're going to talk about his book, Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder, the evolution of modern mating ideologies, dating dysfunction, and demographic collapse.
So Mads, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you so much, Richard. I'm very happy to be here with you. So tell us first, what is the premise of the book exactly?
Why did you decide to write it? What is it really about? I mean, what kinds of topics do you explore there? Yeah, well, the modern world is now heading towards self-eradication. Our fertility rates have fallen so low, uh, and if we're unable to turn that around, we will simply disappear.
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