We Can Accept a Lot More Without Defending It

i island n the people's republic of new york state, we were never told that we had to wear a mask outside. In our western society now, we're absolutely terrified of death. We can't cope with it. So there's 's immaturity about pain and suffering in our western culture. I i don't think you can understate how much of a driver that is. People talk about cultural shifts in society, and we are now living very clearly in a pain pleasure society. W'd not reallyunderlike in terms of how we value things. But now actually we've been faced the pain side oftatof that equation, and we've, we've lost it