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Comfort, joy, and the 'woke mind virus'
Inspecting the changes happening in many people's relationships with comfort and joy inevitably reveals systemic problems
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Inspecting the changes happening in many people's relationships with comfort and joy inevitably reveals systemic problems
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Trivia-trainer, horizon-expander, time-waster
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So much fine print, so few who want to read it
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The Merry Pranksters, Blood Meridian, and the inevitability of sacrament
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You can pay it in dollars, Bitcoin, or gallbladders
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Archaic revival, spectacle, and masculinity
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What happens when we amplify our differences
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What else do you call sending thousands to their death for a religious ideal?
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The default mode network, mindfulness, and you
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Open source software and the indigenous critique of the West
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I. What does meaning mean? When we say something “has meaning,” what are we talking about? Investigating that brings up two main findings: a word or symbol can mean something definition-wise, or a physical entity — a person, a movie, a family heirloom — can have meaning to someone. In both cases,
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If you’ve ever seen a therapist for a disorder involving self-directed negativity (depression and anxiety especially) then you’ve probably been asked to “put your thoughts on trial.” The idea is that by conditioning yourself to serve as your own defense attorney and not just your own prosecutor you