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\section{Modernity's Mistake}
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\lettrine{M}{odernity} has largely decided that any state which doesn't resolve is a pathology.
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We have an enormous apparatus for managing unresolved states:
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medication, distraction, obsession with work, entertainment, consumption.
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Modernity's premise is that closure is always preferable to openness.
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The perpetual ``not yet'' is a problem to be fixed.
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But that premise is wrong --- profoundly wrong, at least about Longing.
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Some openings are not wounds to be healed but paths to be walked, endlessly.
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The person seized by Longing is not sick.
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They are oriented differently.
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And the drugs and distractions offered by modernity are,
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for them, poisons dressed as medicine.
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They close the door that the Longing opens.
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