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Our Bleak Culture Is Unattractive to Kids (opens the original)
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The New York Times recently published an op-ed titled “The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help.”If you have kids of a certain age range, you already know about brain rot. If you don’t, here’s an example of a brain rot video.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ag1Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
Encountering Ourselves (opens the original)
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My daughter and I have been watching the show Alone.10 people are dropped in remote locations and challenged to survive (alone) as long as they can. They build shelters from trees and mud, hunt with bows, and boil lake water to drink. The person who stays longest in the wilderness wins.<div class="image2
When Artificiality is the Default (opens the original)
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When I pulled into my driveway at almost 10pm one night last week, I didn’t expect to see three kids running in their pajamas around the grass of our front yard. My twelve-year-old was lit by the light at our front door, glowing yellow against the backdrop of night as she jumped up and down, her long, wavy, sun-bleached hair bouncing.My kids are not typically this excited to see me—or this awake—when I return home from a late dinner with friends. My son (who, it turns out, was not in pajamas but
Woman on Animal, Going Fast (opens the original)
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My family and I spent the first week of June riding horses in the Colorado Rockies. It was the end of a long, busy academic year, and being on the back of a horse for hours-on-end eventually did what no glass of wine or Netflix session had been able to do: it reset my fried nervous system. On our first night in Colorado, I told my husband I couldn’t concentrate on anything he was saying because a loud humming noise in the back of my brain was distracting me. The hum was like a dictator telling m
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