Note by Gurwinder on Substack
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Note by Gurwinder on Substack
The people I admire most have a way of escaping the bubble of culture. Sometimes via religion; sometimes via old books; sometimes via time in nature. Without such an escape, propaganda wins. You stop thinking for yourself. Modern delusions grow into an all-consuming mind virus.
Social contagion is a force of nature, and like anything in nature, perfectly amoral. We describe laughter and yawning as 'infectious', but we can also be infected with ambition, or happiness, or stupidity, or bloodlust. Researchers now suggest obesity should be classified as a 'contagious' disease, given the extent to which it spreads through soci
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The contagion is just a symptom. The infection is in our ecosystem.