You can't tell anyone anything of use without a hell of a lot of context.
Art is one way to provide that context, lived experience another.
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Relationships provide context. Communities provide context. Cultures (theoretically) provide context.
Most of the institutions who make it their business to provide context, though, don't.
News, politics and industry are prime examples of things that frequently strip context.
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Monopolization causes massive problems over time, but you can see where it comes from - being able to provide context, rather than an atomized set of business relationships, is incredibly valuable - both literally and fiscally.
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Another thing that provides context, intuitively, in ways we probably fail to understand, is nature itself.
Our nature-given context is dying out.
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The extinction of species and the desolation of extant ecosystems is not just an ecological catastrophe, not just an existential threat - it's the erasure of an entire *category* of meaning.
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