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No one said anything about possessions, you're projecting. We're talking about survival here, not consumerism.

jstewartmobile 9y ago
That's probably a little over-dramatic. In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. That, and "human development" in terms of an actual broad education will probably get you further in the long run than circling up around the latest job credential. I remember reading somewhere about how learning certain instruments makes changes to the brain's surface that are large enough to see with the naked eye. From many accounts, playing the violin was no small part of Einstein's life and research. Who knows if he'd have been as productive if he'd just been all-physics-all-the-time? It could have served as a sort of "backpropagation" to his theoretical work. From my own experience, many of these seemingly unrelated intellectual pursuits open so many doors, and from this article it isn't just my own experience: https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidden-connections-between-scientific-breakthroughs-and-art-f67a67ce8240 https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidd...
- gnaritas 9y ago
  > In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. You've never been poor I see, or really truly known anyone who was. Poverty is a real problem, here, in the good old USA still. Survival is all many people worry about. I'm relaying a reality to you that you clearly have no concept of. I didn't have indoor plumbing until I was a teenager. We lived off government handouts and what we could kill and bathed outdoors in rainwater we had to strain the misquote larvae out of with a towel. Don't tell me I'm being overly dramatic, you don't know what you're talking about. Yea, music is good, but when you're worried about how you're going to eat today you don't think about such things, you don't plan long term, you live day by day.
  - jstewartmobile 9y ago
    My family was on public assistance when I was younger, and I went to public schools where over half the students families were on some form of public assistance. None of us had to bathe in stagnant water...
    - gnaritas 9y ago
      Then count yourself lucky but don't presume to know what it is to be actually poor nor pretend it doesn't exist in the west; it does.
      - jstewartmobile 9y ago
        I presumed nothing about being "actually poor". I wrote that "survival is a pretty low bar" in the west. Despite whatever hardships you have endured, here you are.

That's probably a little over-dramatic. In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. That, and "human development" in terms of an actual broad education will probably get you further in the long run than circling up around the latest job credential. I remember reading somewhere about how learning certain instruments makes changes to the brain's surface that are large enough to see with the naked eye. From many accounts, playing the violin was no small part of Einstein's life and research. Who knows if he'd have been as productive if he'd just been all-physics-all-the-time? It could have served as a sort of "backpropagation" to his theoretical work. From my own experience, many of these seemingly unrelated intellectual pursuits open so many doors, and from this article it isn't just my own experience: https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidden-connections-between-scientific-breakthroughs-and-art-f67a67ce8240 https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidd...

gnaritas 9y ago
> In the west, survival is a pretty low bar. You've never been poor I see, or really truly known anyone who was. Poverty is a real problem, here, in the good old USA still. Survival is all many people worry about. I'm relaying a reality to you that you clearly have no concept of. I didn't have indoor plumbing until I was a teenager. We lived off government handouts and what we could kill and bathed outdoors in rainwater we had to strain the misquote larvae out of with a towel. Don't tell me I'm being overly dramatic, you don't know what you're talking about. Yea, music is good, but when you're worried about how you're going to eat today you don't think about such things, you don't plan long term, you live day by day.
- jstewartmobile 9y ago
  My family was on public assistance when I was younger, and I went to public schools where over half the students families were on some form of public assistance. None of us had to bathe in stagnant water...
  - gnaritas 9y ago
    Then count yourself lucky but don't presume to know what it is to be actually poor nor pretend it doesn't exist in the west; it does.
    - jstewartmobile 9y ago
      I presumed nothing about being "actually poor". I wrote that "survival is a pretty low bar" in the west. Despite whatever hardships you have endured, here you are.