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David Wallace-Wells on Empowering the Future
The Daily Stoic
**Wealthy countries are addicted to the idea of controlling everything **
We're in a slightly more healthy place narratively about the pendemic now. We've sort of dropped that pretence that pendemic suffering is elective, and we've started to just treat it as background noise. It's probably how earlier generations would have treated it, gotten around. They would have gotten around to that point much more quickly because they were much more familiar with the idea that things were out of our control. But we're so addicted to the idea,. especially the wealthy, powerful countries if the world, especially wealthy, powerful people in wealthy,powerful countries in the world, we're so addiction to the idea that we can control whatever we set about to control, that we
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