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Today, we’re not just creatively stunted, inefficient and unsatisfied...

We’re actively sabotaging ourselves.

And worse, we’re calling it business as usual.

Kaczynski believed modern society made us docile and miserable by depriving us of fulfilling challenges and eroding our sense of purpose. The brain evolved to solve problems, but the problems it had evolved for were now largely solved by technology. Most of us can now obtain all our basic necessities simply by being obedient, like a pigeon pecking ... See more

“It’s frustrating feeling like you are always waiting for someone to say yes”

Lucy finds herself torn between the cynicism and mathematical practicality her job has hardened in her and a yearning romanticism she wishes she could be open to.