I don't really prize editing half as much as most people do. I dont if it makes me a better thinker in the way that everyone seems to claim these things do. Because, like the millionaires, we're not all the same. We're all different, and the difference is interesting. But that seems to get lost in these sort of signalling, little ive n itheology,. Just many views, which then become mimetically self correct - from that, that view jus gets spread. Any sort of new ans or actual useful inform from an actual practition, that just gets drowned out because it doesn't sound as good as these nice sound bugs. You can see this painting right
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