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Existential Optimism

"Age of Miracles"

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Is There a God in Public?

i think that we're in the middle of an equally profound shift, and that it's worth pausing for a moment to solidify our philosophical and moral footing before everything spins too fast and runs away from us. In 20 17, pews surveyed americans on what provides them with a sense of meaning. Family won by a landslide at a nice 69% but career blew every else out of the water at 34%. People love complaining about their jobs, but they also love the purpose a job gives them. The wally future in which we don't need to work because the robots do everything for us is a terrifying distopia, like religion in the nineteenth century.

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