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Meanwhile, social media re-embeds discourse in “the arena where human beings struggle with one another.” Communication takes on a combative and preening tone. Ideas are tethered to personas and social contexts. People generally apprehend the factional valence of an argument — which groups endorse it and which do not — before they ever give it indep... See more
By facilitating such introspection, literacy heightened self-consciousness, laying the foundation for individualism. And by encouraging abstract, systemic thinking — and enabling ideas to disseminate widely across space and time — writing spurred the development of universalistic worldviews, in which general rules, rights, and moral precepts apply ... See more
Beauty is not liberation. Attention is not power. You have to value being free more than being desired
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the problem is that the loneliness epidemic is very real for all of us, it’s just that it’s solely presented as an issue of guys unable to get laid. capitalism has fully hollowed out entire communities and alienated us from one another to the point of isolation
the thicc husband & fatherx.comWhy the Tech Elite HATE Art w/ Ruby Thelot | Middlebrow Podcast
youtu.beit seems we’re obsessed with measurements. measuring success, measuring progress. everything is a measurement. after generations have been taught to think outside the box, we have a new generation crawling back inside the box, crying for rules and structure.
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