3 ms·
I hate this quote. Who's mind is it trying to change? People who already enjoy random frivolous human interaction are already filling their days with it, the sa
by deanCommie 11y ago
I hate this quote. Who's mind is it trying to change? People who already enjoy random frivolous human interaction are already filling their days with it, the same way he is. And people who dread useless chores like this and feel they get more pleasure and enjoyment out of the rest of their life are certainly not going to suddenly try his way.
Are there people who are optimizing their workflow while secretly pining for a less efficient more personal approach to buying envelopes that could read this and see the light?
- Chinjut 11y agoThe mind it may be trying to change is that of the people who not only optimize their own lives to avoid "farting around" but furthermore cast aspersions on others who enjoy and indulge in it.
- nosuchthing 11y agoAkin to "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." The quote is saying we're all just here on a rock flying through space. Be a part of your neighborhood/communities. Enjoy life, engage strangers not as soulless husks of flesh but as humans like yourself. Perhaps there are merits to a lifestyle of pure efficiency, but there are valuable interactions lost if you stick to your own little world.
- eropple 11y agoThank you for this, seriously. I find myself saying, more often over time, that I think the tech world wants to destroy civil society because they don't understand it--posts like this make me feel a little better about us, even if it's seemingly a minority view.