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Cake day: January 21st, 2022

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  • During high school our class went to this guided experience that was called “Dialogue in the Darkness”.
    It was basically a tour in this building with all light blocked out, total darkness, so no one could see anything and each room we went through a scene in the normal life of a blind person.
    I particularly remember when they made us order something at a bar and then pay with cash. The struggle to figure out what coins I had without seeing them is something that I never tinked about before that moment. It made me understand that there are many aspect of our lives that we take for granted just because we don’t have a disability. Sometimes I still think about it




  • Collective pride is real and there are a lot examples of it, but it works with small sized groups and when it does it feels great. Because of course we’re a social species, but our monkey brain is built around tribes and doesn’t conceive whole nations. And that’s why, for example, when I see people cheering for an athlete just because all their parents happened to fuck within the same imaginary lines, I find it really silly.

    But I know that’s me, I have no problems with people who have a healthy national pride. I’m just saying I don’t and never had.