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Bonus: We're Not Broken

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Why Inspirational Stories Enrage You?

You've had a successful career now on the heels of publishing your first book. I was listening to another interview where you talked about how these qon inspirational stories just totally enrage you and how problematic they so why do those narratives cause so many problems as they get served up all the time? Yes, i think one of my problems with those kinds of stories, and why they enrage me is because they put all the onus on the artistic person themselves. And if oudon't have an interest han can be monotized, then you're almost kind of pathologized. They're inspiring because they don't require anything to change within the system. Rather than just having

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