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Tom Farr's avatar

“Empires live by numbness”

That’s a great line. True hundreds of years BCE and equally so now. Also true along the vector of scale… in big empires and micro empires. Even ones as tiny as the local holy huddles where rows of chairs and podiums and communion tables create the illusion of changeless retreat into perpetual numbness.

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Ladye Rachel Howell's avatar

It's so true. I want to learn how to interrupt the numbness!

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Tom Farr's avatar

This is going to sound too simple. Start with YouTube and TickTock. Cast your line where all the fish are.

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