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Comment by delichon

2 days ago

The ones I knew weren't celebrities, they were friendless and isolated and consumed with self disgust.

Poor people trapped in unemployment have something in common with rich kids trapped in lethargy. A kind of spiritual constipation.

No, more like literal survival. In these conditions there is no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation

  • > no mental bandwidth for things like spiritual constipation

    That's a feature, not a bug. Fighting for life has more meaning and purpose that yearning for death. We're designed for it. It has only recently become atypical.