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Agreed, and to add another thing: Ignorance (or wonder, mystery, surprise)

there's a paradoxical duality about progress. It was defined as a way to remove the cost of previous eras. You couldn't go far (solved by transportation), you didn't have time (tools), you were curious (wikipedia).

By optimizing everything away I think we damaged a big part of the very unoptimized nature of life.




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