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Why bother having fun? Why bother reading? Why bother doing anything but maximizing your human potential? Because it is exhausting. We eat fruit not just for t
by failrate 6y ago
Why bother having fun?
Why bother reading?
Why bother doing anything but maximizing your human potential?
Because it is exhausting. We eat fruit not just for the nutrition and dietary fiber. It is also delicious and inspires joy.
And joy might be the best thing we can have.
- rthomas6 6y agoDoes it really inspire joy? Or does it just give pleasure? They are not the same.
- failrate 6y agoImagine a hot summer day. You are lying under the shade of a peach tree, because it is too hot to be out in the sun. A perfectly ripe, almost too ripe, peach drops off the tree. You pick it up and take a bite. The flesh tastes better than any candy. The juice drips down your chin. Is that merely pleasure, or is it joy?