Distance Is a Way of Thinking
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Distance is usually described as geography, time, or separation. This episode argues that it’s something else entirely.
Distance is a cognitive structure. A way people regulate exposure, delay responsibility, and stay operational in the presence of risk, complexity, and consequence. It doesn’t remove events from our lives; it reclassifies them.
This episode examines how distance functions across geography, time, morality, digital life, and institutions, and why its collapse feels destabilising rather than clarifying. It also asks what happens when awareness no longer requires response, and when proximity returns without preparation.
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