what if your complicated, high status problems like "meaning crisis" "culture war" "capitalism" are actually simple, low-status problems like "am attached to specific outcomes and hence suffering due to the delta between desire and reality"?

see how annoying that is?

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mb the problems really are complicated and it's not about status at all, and making it about status is a massive cope for not feeling up to the intellectual challenge of grappling with them?

mb there aren't actually any simple answers and we shouldn't try and force there to be

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