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I have rarely seen this better put. To exist in a 'western' society today is to live in a utopian dream for most of the current worlds population and 99.9% of human beings who have come before us. It needs constant nurturing and attention to remain in this state and is closer than most people realise to reversion to the mean. Thanks even lucky start you have every time you wake...
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Copyright Estate of Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos via Brigitte Freed via Slate. There's an old joke, retold by David Foster Wallace in his 2005 commencement speech to graduates of Kenyon College, that goes like this. Two young fish are happily swimming along one morning when they meet an older ...
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