The Unbearable Insignificance of Being

How population growth, inflation of knowledge, the pace of change, globalization make us feel small

Polojko
Meta Life
Published in
4 min readJun 9, 2021

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Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash

By growing population, larger masses are reduced to insignificance. Imagine that, in the early days, humans lived in small groups: 20–30 people, with social hierarchy — chieftains, shamans, hunters, elderly, etc. By encountering…

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Polojko
Meta Life

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