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Why modern life can trigger existential dread

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That 3 AM panic about the meaninglessness of your spreadsheet job is just your brain working perfectly. We evolved to hunt mammoths and survive winters side-by-side, not to optimize B2B sales funnels to afford a tiny apartment. Existential dread is simply your primal consciousness realizing that the modern environment is entirely incompatible with human biology.

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