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Collaborative. The idea of individualism has changed. The idea of being the lone wolf is no longer as desirable.
Technology has enabled this to happen, and it's tied into that Buddhist-inspired spirituality mentioned in the OP: it's the realization that we're all connected. The universe is about interconnectedness. "No man is an island."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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