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ananda

(28,860 posts)

14. You're right.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2020, 12:29 PM

Dec 2020

Everything is treated as special event theater these days,
to the point that it is the new normal.

I wonder how our brains and shock systems have evolved
to deal with this.

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