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Since social contagion is part of the problem, that would already be an improvement.

I scrolled many pages for this. It is true! Information wants to be like an "earworm"...an annoying and "false" song that you just can't shake. Because then it's not anodyne. It ha…

After the third "I'm just SO ANGRY" I had to stop reading. Look, we all get angry, right? It is not a revelation to me that somebody living is feeling angry. Once they told me 3 ti…

You are tone policing. How do you know she didn't "think just a little bit more"? You assert that she didn't think enough because you don't like what she had to say. Ascribing bad …

I've had my site ( https://www.mountainwerks.org ) going since 1998, and for sure, I am myself the primary user. But over time, my gosh, there is a lot of content. It started as a …

I don't think the pastors admission is as bad as it sounds at first blush. A religious man is likely to believe that the best "food" is the knowledge of God. That is, if the spirit…

Where I live, people pulled down AfD signs or defaced them. The unpersoning is not helpful. The ideas won't go away, and the people who think the AfD raises good questions will onl…

So much agree. Naussica and Toroto capture the highest expressions of depth and delight. Though Spirited Away speaks to me more and more...there is a tenderness about the human con…

Keep in touch with your friend. A lot of times, they are wracking their brains to find a way. The weird thing about stepping away, is that the sacrifice of supposed "needs" turns o…

Sigh. So I'm writing from a position of privilege (I'm often accused of this). However, if MY attitudes are adopted, then the locus of control returns to the individual. Who will d…

> perhaps like some progressives, I am not sure there is as big a difference as we'd like to believe between selling one's spring days to be a cog in any commercial operation and s…

Our aspirations might be vaunting past what humans are generally capable of. I completely agree with you, but since I see over and over (and over) that only direct relationships en…

It was useful, thanks! I've definitely seen this in tech, esp. the latter case, which I've seen make smart people who deserve better miserable.

I'm interested, and will probably try it. But! I'll keep the # of sick days the same. They are wellness days, when I take care of other business.

Yes. All that aggressively postured success creates feelings of alienation, not only from your friends but the whole society. The people doing it don't understand how it looks on t…

The south is very friendly. I think it's because people have time...somehow not hooked up entirely to the cult of productivity.

Why is this downvoted? As an American (48 yrs) living the last 15 in Europe, I see it exactly the same as vlastjj here.

Munich is the same (as Kiev). I quit social media after divorce, recognizing that no one could have had any idea we were struggling as a couple. I found our projected persona to be…

I've often thought that the loss of smoking means less mixing of classes that wouldn't have reason to say one word to each other. Smoking creates small favors and the need to ask f…

Your comment is delightful.

It is not possible to over-post Adam Curtis. The range of ideas in his videos is fantastic.

Those loopholes are features, not bugs. They allow the mind to close the door to consideration of reflexive problems. Those with a feedback loop back to the self. It really simplif…

I think your buffer has overflowed. If living sustainably within limited resources were merely a "thing" to take care of one afternoon, or even in 1000 afternoons, then we probably…

Ha!

Yes, everything 'steals time,' but the biggest time stealers are those things which chemically alter your brain, such as alcohol, cannabis or other drugs. They alter the organs of …