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I Quit! The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets the problems run to failure.

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By now, we all know the name of the game is narrative control: we no longer face problems directly and attempt to solve them at their source, we play-act "solutions" that leave the actual problems unrecognized, undiagnosed and unaddressed, on the idea that if cover them up long enough they'll magically go away.

The core narrative control is straightforwa…

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