Given its power as a healing venture, then, what I’m calling for in this book is more hanging out: more parties, more shared meals, more in-person gatherings, more late-night conversations, more being together in public, more cooperation, more standing shoulder to shoulder, more social revelry. This might sound like a call for a return to hanging out, but I’m conscious of the futility of viewing it in this way—of returning to anything or anywhere. This is not a make hanging out great again manifesto, but rather a call to remember what it was that we used to do and why we used to do it as a
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