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Students explain creative decline through comfort, technology, materialism, spiritual disconnection, and loss of love or hope.
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Comfort
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diagnosis
He argues that the student demand for comfort turns the professor into a service worker whose job is to make students feel at home, which defeats the point of university.
model
A life of comfort, security, and prosperity can produce selfishness because people come to believe they deserve continuous accumulation.
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"Yes? For our needs and we stop suffering and so we don't need to engage in anything difficult. Also because of technology, everything is..."
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"Yeah, yeah. People have, yes, go ahead. I think I want to add on to that because people are not only too materialistic, they're..."
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"...as a master is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live in filaments you have not..."
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"okay so this is not appropriate okay again both sides have legitimate points but this is not appropriate right because what she's saying to..."
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"of comfort and security and prosperity, you become a selfish individual because you think you deserve all this. The other thing is that the..."
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"...programs and workshops on shakespeare and poetry during covid which was comfort during difficult times comfort and enlightenment equally so um i'll turn the..."
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"...so that another later must restore her. His neighbor, whose appearance comforts him, governed the land in which are born the waters of Moldau,..."
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"The only one beside me was my comfort. By now the sun was more than two hours high, it was the sea to which..."
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"...sadness that you can see in another person. And it's to comfort people by showing that you understand and that their pain is enough..."
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"I turned to my side and he my only comfort as he turned around began. Why must you still mistrust? Don't you believe that..."
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"...you just you don't only want sex you want to have comfort maybe it's okay just like you give your"
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"...granted it but you wait here for me and feed and comfort your tired spirit with good hope for i will not abandon you..."
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