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Joan Westenberg
@daojoan.eth
We live longer, we’re healthier, we have more opportunities than ever before. And yet, we’re all walking around one cracked phone screen away from a total nervous breakdown. So what gives? Why is everyone suddenly acting like they’re starring in their own personal disaster movie? Why are we all on the edge? What the fuck happened? https://joanwestenberg.com/the-anxiety-epidemic
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Cobe Liu
@liucobe
Western education, employment, and culture’s lack of emphasis on building (no shop class, western academia as opposed to eastern manufacturing) is at least partially to blame for the loss of sense of purpose. Many of us are lost in endless paperwork, emails, and bureaucracy. Not a knock on the heros of the western canon but they are predominantly critics, while the great builders of our time are constantly critiqued for their faults. To be consequential is to run the risk of making mistakes. And to avoid all consequences is to abstain from greater purpose. We are culturally pressured to choose this path, impotent to all but constant critiques of ourselves and others. No wonder many of us are always anxious. This is not an inescapable doom. There are those who choose to build and create, embracing the consequences (see web3, Substack, internet frontier, spaceX). Hope is not lost.
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Aunt HoⓂ️ie
@infinitehomie
I think that tends to be the dichotomy between those who believe that being stuck in the paper mill is more important versus building being more important (which it is) There needs to be a resurgence of builder focused education. Shop class, coding, video, graphic design, in grade school again. For sure. 50 $degen
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