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Super-Squeezed

Welcome to the traditional hamster wheel transforming into the novel Great Reset.

Tessa Lena
Oct 29, 2022
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This story is about the syndrome of our times—being super-squeezed—and the civilizational and individual consequences of violating our biological clock. It is also about what happens when we collectively abandon the “claim” to our intimate spiritual space where we stretch and grow our souls at our internal pace. I started typing, and the story got too long—so I am splitting it in several parts, and this is Part 1.

brown and white analog clock at 10 10
Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash

Mechanical clock = a combo of convenience and self-abuse

There is a philosophical point that I have been trying to understand ever since I was a kid. I am mesmerized with the mystery of long-term trajectories of the collective psyche and with the grand arcs of individual human lives—what leads to what, how small subjective choices have the power to change things dramatically over time, and so on. It is really interesting, and so I have been thinking extensively about the civilizational milestone from centuries ago that kept evolving an…

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