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I'm not sure their psychological/cultural reasons translate very well to continental europe. The people that surround me in Germany have all the time they want.

by fwn 9y ago

I'm not sure their psychological/cultural reasons translate very well to continental europe. The people that surround me in Germany have all the time they want. Besides that: > No one has ever complained of having too much of it. Isn't that just being bored? I'm sure I've heard people complaining about that.

KozmoNau7 9y ago
I think people who complain about being bored are simply scared of being alone with their thoughts. I don't mind doing "nothing" on a train or bus ride, it gives me time to slow down a little and just think to myself. I think this "gotta be busybusybusy" thing originated in the US, but it is definitely spreading. I see way too many people who are way too wrapped up in their careers or are constantly stressing about all the things they "have to do", and they forget to actually enjoy anything, because they're already mentally at the next thing. I love lazy Saturdays on the couch, and I wouldn't trade them for anything.
- musage 9y ago
  > Well, apart from bureaucracy being anonymous in essence, every restless activity makes responsibility evaporate. There is an idiomatic expression in English: "stop and think". No person can think without stopping [first]. When you force someone into a restless activity, or they let themselves be forced into it, you will always have the same result. You will always have the problem that a sense of responsibility cannot form. It can only form in the moment in which one reflects -- not about oneself, but about what one is doing. -- Hannah Arendt (translation me, original here http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/114/194 http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/114/1... , audio here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_UvHhbZIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_UvHhbZIA ) And now for something completely different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjo2ggPRKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjo2ggPRKE Less isn't just sometimes more, and more isn't just sometimes less. Sometimes it's something else entirely: sometimes a little less is everything, and a little more is nothing.
asoli 9y ago
That's why the writer said that the scarcity of time is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution.

by fwn 9y ago

KozmoNau7 9y ago

I think people who complain about being bored are simply scared of being alone with their thoughts. I don't mind doing "nothing" on a train or bus ride, it gives me time to slow down a little and just think to myself. I think this "gotta be busybusybusy" thing originated in the US, but it is definitely spreading. I see way too many people who are way too wrapped up in their careers or are constantly stressing about all the things they "have to do", and they forget to actually enjoy anything, because they're already mentally at the next thing. I love lazy Saturdays on the couch, and I wouldn't trade them for anything.

musage 9y ago
> Well, apart from bureaucracy being anonymous in essence, every restless activity makes responsibility evaporate. There is an idiomatic expression in English: "stop and think". No person can think without stopping [first]. When you force someone into a restless activity, or they let themselves be forced into it, you will always have the same result. You will always have the problem that a sense of responsibility cannot form. It can only form in the moment in which one reflects -- not about oneself, but about what one is doing. -- Hannah Arendt (translation me, original here http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/114/194 http://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/114/1... , audio here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_UvHhbZIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_UvHhbZIA ) And now for something completely different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjo2ggPRKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjo2ggPRKE Less isn't just sometimes more, and more isn't just sometimes less. Sometimes it's something else entirely: sometimes a little less is everything, and a little more is nothing.

asoli 9y ago

That's why the writer said that the scarcity of time is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution.