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Sitting on a train going backwards from Salamanca to Madrid. My wife hates this sensation, but I find something about it very futuristic. "We go into the future, looking in the rearview mirror" type beat. The more I travel, the more I'm in wonder how truly unique every place is. And how everything is exactly the same. The Spanish landscape is just California in a lot of ways. That is a massive flattening, but a kid of the internet generation sees the connection in everything. Whether it's there or not. In a higher sense, there's nothing new under the sun. Everyone has to sleep, eat, drink, shit, work, socialize. There's a reason that people universally walk into a church for its beauty, thinking somehow its message is external of the architecture. You don't get one without the other, but it's also universal to rationalize these things to ourselves. The same is true for culture at large. You want to remove yourself from participation, just to realize that's another form of participation

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