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The theater critic Terry Teachout talks about plays that flatter their audience, that reassure them that the beliefs they came into the playhouse with are the ones with which they should leave: he calls this the “theater of concurrence.”
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
Research hints that the energy-generating organelles of cells may play a surprisingly pivotal role in mediating anxiety and depression.
Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health | Quanta Magazine
quantamagazine.org
Such a society, in which modern technologies serve politically interrelated individuals rather than managers, I will call “convivial.”
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
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