the sexual tension between "what if we did this radically different thing nobody's ever done before" and "what if we did this boring normal thing we used to do effortlessly and mysteriously stopped doing some time in the last century"
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What’s a list of these boring normal things? Would love to see
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hmm finding them hard to articulate. also not confident enough of my grasp of history to be able to say that they were definitely much easier in the past and much harder now. a bunch of nebulous stuff around having functional communities. maybe it’s a bad tweet lol
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cheat code answer to draw boos from the audience: people used to effortlessly go years without checking their phones
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seems like one of the most cutting edge fascinating psychedelic radical activities today would be “going to church regularly to have coffee with old people and sing psalms”
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church-hacking
the church-touring thesis: going to church makes your life better
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