Pascal included work in the divertissement He wasn't talking about having fun he was talking about self distraction to avoid thinking about life He thought th

Pascal included work in the divertissement He wasn't talking about having fun he was talking about self distraction to avoid thinking about life He thought that distractions, like working, served the purpose of not thinking about the misery of life, such as the ultimate fear of death. Pascal never said that ol' times were better, he said that women and men, left alone with their thought cannot handle it. According to Pascal, People only live in the future, imagining a life that does not exist yet, while they avoid to think about their past and present actions as causes of their actual condition. It's more or less what happens today with the disposable nature of social networks content. He wasn't making the same exact case, Pascal is one of the best philosophers in history.