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Anyone else intrigued by how things still don’t feel normal 6 months in? I didn’t think I could sustain feeling weird for this long. It’s like a long road tunnel that just goes on and on. Kinda interesting sensation. Like being on a space mission. Or what I imagine that’s like.
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That’s why I call it permaweird. Something sustained about it. Not like say culture shock where you can feel things getting a bit more normal everyday. It’s when you get new routines but not new normalcy.
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funny you say that because that’s the exact thought experiment I’ve been doing, could I live in and travel indefinitely in space a la the ships in 3BP or worse yet Yun Tianming?
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Maybe it depends on how many of someone’s existing plans were disrupted by the pandemic, which might happen to varying extents depending on the nature of how vulnerable their particular types of work, social activities, hobbies etc. were to being altered by such a scenario.
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I think it is existential dread. As in, 'normally' (?) you might have returned to feeling normal, but there this feels like our very existence is tenuous. Doesn't happen often... Kind of like the cold war times maybe. It became a low hum...