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The Velvet Prison: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Lethal Allure of Comfort
Look around you. We have successfully engineered the friction out of human existence. You can summon a feast from across the globe to your doorstep with the tap of a glass screen. You can manipulate the climate of your home to a perpetual, balmy seventy-two degrees. You can outsource your memory to the cloud, your navigation to a satellite, and your entertainment to an algorithm that knows the precise neurochemical triggers required to keep your eyes glazed and your thumb scrolling.
By every metric of our ancestors, we have arrived at the Promised Land. We have conquered the brutal…
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