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Ross Gay on delight

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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The Importance of Full Humanity

It makes sense for a kind of dumb consumer culture. Yeah, because then you can buy a thing that will make you happy. And I increasingly realized that this obsession with happiness as like a separate strata that we're supposed to like isolate off and seek is such a Western 20th century invention. Even my grandparents would not have recognized this concept that it was attainable in a pure sense.

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