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Hard to describe what those next years felt like to live through. Except as a hollowing out, a loss beyond repair...even as it kept begging to be repaired. While the promise of what had been so very close haunted me. In so many ways.
"So much in motion, such energy, it disguised the decay of things, the incremental rot. How much was hollowed out."
Impossible to tell how fast society was collapsing because history had been riddled through with disinformation, and reality was composed of half-f
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― Hummingbird Salamander
― Hummingbird Salamander
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Homo defessus — Never before in human history have so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and have so much to do) as a badge of honor. We are living in the era of Homo defessus, the exhausted man. I wonder if historians of the distant future (if there will be any) will look back at our epoch and decide to give it a name: “The Second Dark Ages,” because for the first time, humans not only deliberately sought exhaustion, but were also convinced that this menta
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