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Simone Collins: Optimized Dating, Parasocial Relationships, and Societal Collapse

From the New World

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The Irony of Religion

Malcolm Gladwell: We're kind of like seriousness has become incompatible with the way people live their lives. He says we will believe in religion because it is evolutionarily adaptive, which is what you and Malcolm are doing as well. "I don't care if people will do these things in an ironic way, as long as they're doing them"

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