Everyone is numbing out - Catherine Shannon

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The dark side of ironic detachment and possible antidotes for our apathetic world

It’s easy to identify the presence of something, but it’s much harder to identify the absence of something. If your boyfriend brings you flowers, that’s awfully nice. If he never brings you flowers, it might take you a while to notice. Maybe you do eventually notice, but you decide to cope. You tell yourself you don’t care about getting flowers. Maybe you take it a step further: “Actually, flowers are really basic and lame. Only basic girls like flowers. I’m a cool girl and cool girls don’t care about getting flowers.” If this goes on for long enough—even if you are genuinely presented with…

Everyone is numbing out - Catherine Shannon

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