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Jennifer Y's avatar

“I don't like feeling duped and pressured to go along with being duped by the prevailing culture. And another, which is that reality means more to me than theory.“

YES! And despite having similar predilections, I still feel trapped by the prevailing culture. It’s difficult to find kindred spirits and interactions in the corporeal world feel fraught. Interacting with like-minded people on Substack goes only so far.

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Mike Hind's avatar

I feel you, PO. The culture inserts itself between people in the corporeal world. It's divisive like that.

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Mike Hind's avatar

Interesting orthogonal thought there. Which is, of course, why I read you anyway. I certainly get the sense that there isn't much real meaning or happiness (as ordinary folk like me might recognise such things) in that world.

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