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

From the New World

CHAPTER

The Problem With Self-Centeredness

I think if you wanted to solve this problem, right? Like, you would have to find some way to deal with like a societal level. Sort of lack of feeling of meaning and a lack of Feeling special or important. The Internet does it makes people feel assaulted by the all the other people that are out there. And they see people telling each other that they're special telling eachother that they're like a more advanced form of the human race. They need to not feel that deep sense of meaninglessness and need in them.

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