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May 2Liked by radicaledward

Did you ever read "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster? It's an eerily prescient short story to our current predicament. Published in 1908!

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Machine Stops is one of my faves.

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I haven't read it but I do know about it!

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The government did this to us in part. And now we can't stop undoing it to ourselves. Spot on reflections.

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Great piece. None of us have mentally recovered from those years. Even now, so much of what I do feels automated. Maybe that's not so bad, but it does worry me when I stop to think about it.

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Loneliness has being going on forever, and no vaccine can stop it. The damage it can wreak is enormous.

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