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Want to go to sleep and fast-forward to a time period in which the presence of weirdness in the everyday lives of ordinary people is more affordable.
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I guess I’m mostly thinking about the familiar cliche of how housing + student loan debt likely forces a lot of people to make more conservative life choices than they otherwise would.
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I think it’s based on an assumption that more freedom would allow more people to try & make radical choices, but OTOH I can definitely think of plenty of cases where I’ve seen people who had relative freedom not necessarily use it in any imaginative way.
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I don’t know to what extent that’s an inherent limitation of freedom itself, or due to the lack of a critical mass of other people who would also need to have sufficient freedom in order to create supportive communities & cultures for following a wider range of alternative paths.
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