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Freddie Deboer: How Intra-Elite Competition Turned Mental Illness Into a Meme

From the New World

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The Immorality of the Pandemic

I think people looked at the pandemic as a big break with the past. And it turned out to be just, you know, tragic for some people was an inconvenience from any people and more or less the business as usual sort of went along. I recognize the inherent illegitimacy of the system that we're in and it's in its immorality. But at the same time, like the pandemic has really seemed to surface a lot of like whining about why should I have to do anything when the system doesn't work. It's another example of failing to absorb a central lesson of a central part of the maturation process. You need to negotiate with yourself about what is

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