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@mwollny
Another day, another thought :-)
This one is about friendships or about "meaningful" relationships.
What I'll try to capture here is how we're "holding back" from maximising the potential of connections with people because we're trying to minimise inter-personal risks and want to remain independent and minimally committed.
Important thing to bear in mind here is that we, as individuals, are at our weakest when it comes to our relationship with the outer world (nature, society), but the most sovereign when it comes to personal agency.
The modern society emphasises the importance of being independent financially and emotionally in relation to each other, but being totally dependent on the society (having a nominal value of 1 in terms of political, economical power).
This is a huge area and I don't want to go into details, just a taster or a conversation starter :-)
https://slantpositive.vercel.app/Friendship%20Reinventing%20Bonds%20as%20Cornerstones%20of%20a%20New%20World