Para Social Relationships - The Great Mulch of Life

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The search for extreme forms of meaning in the absence of just ordinary meaning. Healthy societies, you get a sense of meaning from knowing people. The mulch of life breaks down and people develop these extremet psociological temperate is para social relationships. There's many, many things going on, but i think it's one key factor in a lot of these very concerning phenomena at the moment.

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