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Conversational affordances often require saying something at least a little bit intimate about yourself, so even the faintest fear of rejection on either side can prevent conversations from taking off. That’s why when psychologists want to jump-start friendship in the lab, they have participants answer a [series of questions](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167297234003) that require steadily escalating amounts of self-disclosure (you may have seen this as [“The 36 Questions that Lead to Love”](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html)).
Good Conversations Have Lots of Doorknobs
Adam Mastroianni
countering consumerism must start from more robust secular (or religious) theodicy: the building of meaning structures, communities of meaning, that lie outside the realm of the market; and that offer credible answers to the deep foundational questions that continue to haunt us.
Escaping the Iron Cage of Consumerism
timjackson.org.uk
By making violence pleasurable, fascinating, and entertaining, the Powers are able to delude people into compliance with a system that is cheating them of their very lives.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
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