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Their wordsit does seem that people who've never experienced any sort of real shock in their own lives, simply can't conceive of real shocks, no matter how much they read about it.
Their wordsppl often assume order is stable, robust reductively, a lot of civilization is like this big factory floor, designed literally during the mechanical/industrial age. it provided great wonders like plumbing and sanitation and transportation and antibiotics etc, lots of great wonderful things about it, huge fun of those, but the big tradeoff is that many people get psychologically and emotionally mutilated to interface better with that factory.
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