Very much so, yes! Exactly! And subjective, configurable ones. E.g., I really do not ever need to know what Ben Shapiro or any of his innumerable clones is saying and I don't want to know either. Yet I almost always do...on a daily basis. https://twitter.com/ectoplasmology/status/1106665857613213697 …
Also, this doesn't mean *just* to insulate yourself from stuff that is harmful to you. It's just meant to maintain a better ecology.
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@edyong209 said in I Contain Multitudes made me reconsider my superficial understanding of immune systems as biome maintainers.Show this thread -
So in this analogy, it means keeping some toxins out but also maintaining an ecology: shit posts, fun noise, weird, and serious. (
@Aelkus had a good thread on this recently but I think it's gone now.)Show this thread
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