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Great interview with L.M. Sacasas, author of one of my favorite sites, The Convivial Society. > The underlying question has to do with our vision for human flourishing: What is the good that we are after? If our vision for human flourishing is to optimize the self as a node in the technologized market network and serve that system to become efficient consumers and producers, the tools that help you get there are of a certain sort. But if human flourishing consists in relationship, in the assortment of skills that sometimes were labeled arts — the art of dying, the arts of memory — then they’re not skills to be optimized, or techniques to be applied, but rather arts and virtues to be cultivated. https://connectivetissue.substack.com/p/achieving-independence-for-the-sake