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BASED BROWNE but where's Spinoza

>>12593131

You're quoting the often-cited translation of "dukkha" as "suffering." It's not quite right.

Your senses cannot detect all of the world at once. They cannot. They, and your brain, limits the tsunami of information to a trickle, and then lets you desire based on that trickle. Dukkha is more accurately the gap between your perception of the world and the world as it actually exists -- the knowledge that no matter how hard you try, or how much you look, or how "free" you think you are, you will never be able to comprehend more than the barest sliver of one second of lived experience.

>>12543205

auntie here's a flower
can i see your boobies
give em a little suckle
read you a story maybe

>>11861412
F

>>11443203
Who said anything about isolation? Most hunter-gatherers lived in bands of 20-50. Humanity lived in semi-permanent settlements for thousands of years before the modern city was created.