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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

—Westley, The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Princess Bride

Great mountains of electronic ink are spilt by digital prophets, thought leaders and others of the gentler fabric who seem, these days, to be inheriting the earth — I guess the Bible said it would happen, so we shouldn’t be surprised — about the importance of spaces to vouchsafe psychological safety: we are, it seems, an uncommonly fragile lot, and the toxicity of banter.