Collective Hedonism: on the blurred lines between heroic and mundane

Blake Lezenski
Nov 4 · 13 min read

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”

~Anais Nin

In this text, I would like to examine the psychological implications of a hero mindset and how a consumption-based lifestyle is not interchangeable with an archetypical quest for meaning and validation.

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