Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

Abandoning the Tyranny of the Like

Not walking away from social media, just stepping off to the side.

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Ron Hogan
Jul 26, 2019
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Last week, as I was reading a New Yorker interview with Wendell Berry, I came across this bit of wisdom:

“We really have to turn against the selfishness of the individualism that sees everybody as a competitor of everybody else. When we see how destructive that is, and we turn against it, then we have our life’s work.”

There are many practical life lesso…

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