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The Heimat Test: Is Your Community a Shire or a Strip Mall?

The Heimat Test: Is Your Community a Shire or a Strip Mall?

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Avatar’s Na’vi aliens probably get a 100/100 Heimat score before their Hometree got blitzkrieged

“Heimatlos” is my theory of everything: heimatlos is why we’re sick, unhappy, lonely, and disconnected. And it’s why we Americans, to the bewilderment of the Western world, voted in someone like Trump.

In my previous piece on heimatlos, I put a name to the d…

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