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Unlocked | U Wasn't There w/ artist & filmmaker Ben Solomon on inter-millennial NYC (NM65)

New Models

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The Role of Drugs in Our Times

"I think the concept of fentanyl as a metaphor for our times is genius because it's the end result of optimization and technological advancement," he says. "And I feel like so much of America is about making these cheap erstats addictive, but bad for you, substitutes of things." He adds that drugs played a huge role in forming friendships and bonds and fueling scenes in certain ways. And then also really decimated my entire friend group and generation beyond personal friends in a way that is really, really crazy and still hard for me to parse through".

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