How do we reconcile the spiritual kind of "good" that emerges from struggle and hardship with the utilitarian good that comes from building security and prosperity for our descendants? Is such a reconciliation even possible?
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
what is there to reconcile? striving for the latter provides the former
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
Not so sure. Seems like a huge part of the modern malaise is that life has become "too easy" in some ways but more difficult in others? Maybe it's just the wrong stressors instead of more or less in total.
7:38 PM - 30 Apr 2020
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