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joey castillo
joey castillo
@joeycastillo@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

The surveys all point the same direction: rising anxiety, rising depression, rising rates of loneliness even as we've never been more connected.

How could this be, when we've gotten so good at giving people what they want?

Maybe because we've gotten good at giving people what they want in a way that prevents them from wanting anything worth having.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/

Westenberg.

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life

The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why. We're hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting. We are
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