There is so much nonsense going on in the world right now, tremendous amounts of damaging white noise. We are all sucked into it, through those little computers we carry around with us in our pockets, machines whose algorithms force us to bear silent witness to catastrophes all around the globe constantly, even when there’s nothing we can do about them except be drawn down into a caldera of depression and inertia. But when faced with the tumult of incidents—the wars and betrayals, the losses and disasters, amplified as they are by the inanity of social media, and underpinned by the need for
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