The Starting Point

The Starting Point

We Were Never Meant to Be Complete

On why individualism is collapsing, how we became strangers to each other and the need to build communities of complementary beings.

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Anna Branten
Nov 11, 2025
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Something has broken - not only within me, but in the landscape I move through. The world I once could mirror myself in, find comfort in, and lean my future against no longer feels like home. It is not just the news, or the reports about the climate, the economy, or politics. It is something deeper - a sense that the very foundation has cracked. That th…

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