Overstimulation Nation - Slack Tide by Matt Labash - 0 views
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The local radio jock said to me, “You must think all of this is pretty silly”. He motioned towards the crowd and then to a rollercoaster directly beside us that came screeching at our heads every 95 seconds. But I said, “No. In a century people are going to look back on right now as a sort of magic era, a charmed time of peace and prosperity and freedom from fear, as something that can never happen again, no matter how much they wish it would.”
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telling the truth always liberates us, even if it scares the hell out of us simultaneously
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Bad things have always happened in this world. That’s nothing new. And bad things will continue to have their uninterrupted run, right until the end of time. But the “freedom from fear” Coupland speaks of is largely a function of not wallowing in it all the live-long day, which our trusty bad-news delivery systems are pretty good about making us do. They give us the illusion of constant movement, even if our only destination is backwards, prompting us to forever double down on fear, and agitation, and mutual suspicion, while steeping us in our own soul sickness.
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