• supersquirrel@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    …and further if we ignore the language of the old and sick by retracting basic healthcare from them and casting them aside than we lose our capacity to sense mortality, age and sickness through language, if only the “healthy” decide what is recorded or said we know very little and in many cases what we do end up “knowing” is worse than knowing nothing at all… certainly we become weak in the exact way we projected onto those suffering… but here I am again falling unintentionally into confessing how much I love The Magic Mountain.

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