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If You Can’t Bend You Risk Breaking

2021/11/22
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Our modern world is a double-edged sword.  On the one hand, the services and technology that we have access to have given us an unprecedented quality of life that just a century ago was out of reach for even the wealthiest of people.  The other side of the coin is a darker part of our society that we don't think about very much:  the entitlement that comes with having everything given to us without much being required in return.  Most people in the developed world have little to really worry about, and our culture has morphed into something that has little patience for things not conforming to our preferences.

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