Freddie deBoer

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Other People's Lives

Other People's Lives

in the absence of meaning, other people's choices feel like an indictment of our own

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Freddie deBoer
May 21, 2021
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We are living, it seems, in an age of insecurity. The less socially and economically secure among us are insecure in very concrete and troubling ways. Meanwhile, I perceive a deep unhappiness among those who should be the healthiest and happiest people in the world - college educated, upwardly-mobile, healthy Americans aged 21-50 who have the social cap…

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