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A long time ago I was dead, and said to myself: That memory you have isn’t actually yours. It’s the necessity Of a special animal that doesn’t exist, and all the animals that do Are its shadow.

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“Because social media absorbs the motivations with which we might otherwise actually form social units that seek and enact change… and exchange that momentum for virtue signalling, and various other kinds of signalling.” — why aren’t we...

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^ “There are metaphoric factors in our language — and habits of thought and usage we acquire largely through exposure and emulation — which predispose us to attempt to define ourselves in terms of ideas or situations which have nothing in common with our nature...

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I saw a meme on FB talking about how ‘masculinity’ is societally-constructed, and calling this out. It would be fascinating to know of any word referring to an identity or quality… that is not ‘societally-constructed’. The simplest...