🌐 Global Economy Aug 14, 2026 · conversableeconomist

Orwell: “It is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.”

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There’s a common script about about artists who live hard and die young. It says that the combination of a self-destructive lifestyle and art means that they were in some way fully alive, in a way that would be impossible, say, for some happily married husband and father, living in the suburbs and working as an editor. Indeed, the script reaches beyond the young and the dead to those who become obsessive about the pursuit of something. In this case, it says that the purity and single-minde

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