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by delichon 200 days ago
The ones I knew weren't celebrities, they were friendless and isolated and consumed with self disgust.

Poor people trapped in unemployment have something in common with rich kids trapped in lethargy. A kind of spiritual constipation.
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michaelscott 200 days ago
No, more like literal survival. In these conditions there is no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation
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delichon 200 days ago
> no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation

That's a feature, not a bug. Fighting for life has more meaning and purpose that yearning for death. We're designed for it. It has only recently become atypical.

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