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The Age of Anxiety

What the coming dystopia and despair of the 15 minute city tells us a lot about our collective ungluing. WARNING: There's poetry.

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Justin Ling
Feb 27, 2023
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When the historical process breaks down and armies organize with their embossed debates the ensuing void which they can never consecrate, when necessity is associated with horror and freedom with boredom, then it looks good to the bar business.

The Age of Anxiety, W.H. Auden

"Let's say my friend lives in Zone 3 and I'm in Zone 1,” she began.

A head shorter…

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