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Wow. I thought the amount of time I spend with The Office reruns in the background on Netflix was bad, but it's nowhere near 4 hours bad.

komali2 7y ago
I mean, is it bad? This is everyone I know back home. They go to work, come home, eat, and watch TV. It's a life. It's not for me, but like, what else are they going to do with their time? I could make a bunch of value-judgement statements like "they should read a book!" or "they should learn python!" but like, why? Who cares? They don't have ambitions beyond a comfortable life. Just as my life is not for them, their life is not for me. At least they have some way to entertain themselves, whereas every second I spend relaxing comes with anxiety over whether I'm spending my time "usefully."
- TimTheTinker 7y ago
  > I mean, is it bad? This is everyone I know back home. They go to work, come home, eat, and watch TV. It's a life. If you believe your origin and your destiny are agent-less and meaningless, then it makes the most sense to call everything in the middle meaningless also. Thus - eat, drink, watch TV, have fun till it's over. I can see that making sense. But if life and its pursuits have any shred of meaning, then I think it's OK to say they could be doing better things with their time.
  - airstrike 7y ago
    +1. Very nicely said. Thank you for this
  - komali2 7y ago
    You and I agree, for our own lives. I derive meaning from my agency. For some reason, though, there are a shitload of people out there that don't have this ambition. I understand difficulty empathizing with it, because to people like you and me it does look like a "waste of time." But for some reason it really is just ideal for a lot of people to be able to switch their brain off and sit comfortably in front of a TV and be entertained. For these people, you could argue "you should be doing something better with your time," but all you'd get back is "why? This is comfortable."
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komali2 7y ago

I mean, is it bad? This is everyone I know back home. They go to work, come home, eat, and watch TV. It's a life. It's not for me, but like, what else are they going to do with their time? I could make a bunch of value-judgement statements like "they should read a book!" or "they should learn python!" but like, why? Who cares? They don't have ambitions beyond a comfortable life. Just as my life is not for them, their life is not for me. At least they have some way to entertain themselves, whereas every second I spend relaxing comes with anxiety over whether I'm spending my time "usefully."

TimTheTinker 7y ago
> I mean, is it bad? This is everyone I know back home. They go to work, come home, eat, and watch TV. It's a life. If you believe your origin and your destiny are agent-less and meaningless, then it makes the most sense to call everything in the middle meaningless also. Thus - eat, drink, watch TV, have fun till it's over. I can see that making sense. But if life and its pursuits have any shred of meaning, then I think it's OK to say they could be doing better things with their time.
- airstrike 7y ago
  +1. Very nicely said. Thank you for this
- komali2 7y ago
  You and I agree, for our own lives. I derive meaning from my agency. For some reason, though, there are a shitload of people out there that don't have this ambition. I understand difficulty empathizing with it, because to people like you and me it does look like a "waste of time." But for some reason it really is just ideal for a lot of people to be able to switch their brain off and sit comfortably in front of a TV and be entertained. For these people, you could argue "you should be doing something better with your time," but all you'd get back is "why? This is comfortable."
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