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You will slack off at life in proportion to how replaceable or interchangeable you feel Chosen Ones cut themselves no slack
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In the Industrial Age humans were treated as interchangeable parts when they weren’t really, in the digital age, they are treated as special snowflakes when they’re really quite interchangeable
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Every ayahuasca tripping Medium-post writer sounds the same. Every psychotic homeless person rant sounds psychotic in its own way
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As quality of life and living standards rise, people get more alike, and it feels traumatic But people struggling to survive end up with differentiated psyches shaped by the peculiarities of their struggles
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What about shared disgusts or shared fears? Not quite the inverse of shared comforts, but there are both homogenizing effects (consensus about the bogeyman) but with more differentiated solutions
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Good point. Do shared disgusts serve as a way for privileged people to spice up their otherwise comfortable lives? It seems like they arise in different ways in different forms of social privilege throughout history. Japanese disgust is different than English, etc.
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