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Most people no longer live in pristine places, and their sense of beauty may have already been numbed, exhausted, and violated. Living in urban agglomerations can instill a longing for beauty exactly because of the ugliness that is part of the daily experience of place and environment.

And it may be because of that that people turn their sense of "belonging" to something else: online communities, "the planet as a whole", humanity's future, etc.

This doesn't need to be something unfortunate but may simply show that humans are changing: from "place-bound" (with its inherent "belonging") to "sphere-bound", i.e., everything that allows for a "We", for beauty, and the care for its sustencance.

I think human beings are care-driven. They lose themselves if they don't have something they can care for and care about.Which is another reason why I am utterly hopeful, with a strong sense of #postdoom.

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