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This crowd doesn’t seem to have what we might call a native/wild liberal streak grounded in something like active curiosity or openness to experience. But the like the abstract idea of such a liberal drive existing even if they don’t feel it.
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It’s funny to watch them rather studiously engage in things they feel they “ought” to enjoy like producing/consuming arts or science. They may even have some talent and painfully cultivated taste for it. But a deep joylessness radiates from how they do it.
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