People who are fully dependent on trusted others for critical needs (like a non-earning spouse or a parent or a grown child for elders) have a very relaxing energy when secure in trusted party’s presence. Unironically religious people have it too. Christians in particular.
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It’s the steady energy release of being able to let go and sink into a sort of cradle of active care (real or imagined). Passive things like a chair don’t allow you to let go enough. You have to know someone else will do the necessary caring to let go a care yourself.
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You can take the weight off your feet and sink into a chair, but only another human can do that for an active care on your mind. Or a sufficiently good AI. “Cares” are default policy goals like “don’t fall down” which a chair can take over.
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Good argument for literal belief in a personal caring god for cases where “caring” is futile anyway and getting a care off your mind but not actually covered is still a net plus due to improved energy field. “The lord will provide”. Not true but helpful to believe sometimes.
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Achieving that “cared for” energy without actually being cared for seems like a good aspiration.
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The Secret is to trust the universe when it isn’t looking.
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Startup idea: worrybot. You lay down your cares and worries in a doc and hand it over, it worries about them for you. Not like being cared for, but being worried for is nearly as good. Empath mturking solutions acceptable.
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I've been thinking about a lower-tech answer here (for ~global worries, anyway): something like a public Roam database of worries.
Thinking: maybe seeing every worry documented alongside possible solutions, or at least airing them, might reduce panic & induce more brainstorming
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This used to be a large part of life:
Noblesse Oblige, most of the female side of marriage, salaryman, ...
When you ask whence springs the discontent with modern life of so many, the support for fascism and theocracy, THIS is the wellspring.
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