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But most conflicts are avoided in everyday life because we tend to keep most everyday institutions related to shallow aspects of life. It is much easier to create and maintain social settings and institutions that revolve around lower depth: It takes considerably less sensitivity and skill to set up a manual labor team, a movie night or a game of golf, than it does to set up an a successful psychotherapeutic treatment, a genuine talk about the meaning of life or a truly sublime shared spiritual experience.
The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
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