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> Being heroic isn't always saving the planet. Sometimes it's just waking up the next day and going to work. Going to the cubicle and banging out TPS Reports d
by bizkitgto 8y ago
> Being heroic isn't always saving the planet. Sometimes it's just waking up the next day and going to work.
Going to the cubicle and banging out TPS Reports day in and day out isn't being heroic, it's being passive, living life on auto pilot. I hate it. And so do most people who are aware of what it's doing to them.
- moate 8y agoWithout getting to deep into the philosophical point I was trying to make as an afterthought in my comment: "Given the choice between the sweet simple release provided by the revolver, and continuing the Sisyphean task of just living, I consider the human race heroic for simply being"
- bizkitgto 8y agoIt's those deeper philosophical questions that we struggle with, and once we have the right 'question' the search for the answer is what drives most people. But those answers are mostly elusive or non-existent. And that makes people very unhappy.