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Reality Eats Culture For Breakfast: AI, Existential Risk and Ethical Tech
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Broken Men in a Broken World: The Last of Us, God of War and The Banshees of Inisherin
What our most popular stories about men tell us about modern masculinity
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The Truth About Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, Rachel Yehuda and George Bonanno
How the mainstreaming of trauma is changing culture
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The Truth About Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, Rachel Yehuda and George Bonanno
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How Amazon's new series gives us a new lens on the culture wars
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Myth and Metrics: How social media robs us of ritual, and how to revive it
TikTok, Beowulf, and Sacred Repetition
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The Ego Doesn't Die: Why Western spirituality is so confused, and what to do about it
Ego-death and the science of transformation
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