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Why do we still pedestal romantic love?

I believe romance should be a by-product of living within community, not the holy grail of relationships.

Nadia Meli

Nov 04, 2024

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My friend was dating a man for a couple of months over the summer. They met with him once a week, every week - until they had to... See more

If our social attitudes towards agency are as important as they seem, we should measure its prevalence in the general population, then find ways to track it over time. I grew up in the heady halcyon days of globalism, where celebrities sang “We Are the World” [ 3 ] and Whitney Houston proclaimed that  “I believe the children are our future.”

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but whether parasocial content is desirable or not, it points to a growing crisis on the internet: So much of what we encounter online just doesn’t matter , and even worse, offers no mechanism for us to start caring about it. The average human living today sees more things they don’t care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their entir... See more

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