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Me too. As a 'victim' of the Protestant Work Ethic, or maybe personality traits of the industrious/conscientious type, I find it the struggle is fighting for my

Me too. As a 'victim' of the Protestant Work Ethic, or maybe personality traits of the industrious/conscientious type, I find it the struggle is fighting for my right to be active in a world that increasingly lionises a passive, convenient and dependent life-stance. I just want to shake people sometimes. Look around you and see what needs to be done and the duty life demands of you!

archarios 4y ago
Yeah I suppose if we had fully automated space communism already I may have a different viewpoint..
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Makes me wonder. If we did have automated luxury communism, would people like me just not be satisfied and struggle to find new "problems"? Alexis De Toqueville described the "American Spirit" as one of "restiveness"... itching to change and move (FWIW I'm British but tarn with the same brush). There's a funny line in "Analyse This" where Bully Crystal's character says innocently to Robert De Niro... "What are you going to do this summer?" And the Mafioso gangster (De Niro) replies; "About What?!"
annyeonghada 4y ago
>duty life demands of you I have no duty towards life. I didn't choose to be born, did I? In fact, I vegetate waiting to have enough strength to suppress my fear of death and kill myself. Yes, I've tried therapy in the last 15 years. Yes, I've tried exercise, meditation, journaling, workaholism, idleness, religion, philosophy, science and so on and on. I just want to be done. Every evening I pray to deities I don't believe in: "Have mercy on my suffering, do not make me wake up". So, no: there is no duty towards anything, just the futility of existence in itself.
- nnoitra 4y ago
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  > I didn't choose to be born, did I? According to the Bardo, Veda, Platonic Phaedo and Tibetan Book of the Dead, yes you did. You just don't remember why your immortal soul chose this adventure. > Every evening I pray to deities I don't believe in: "Have mercy on my suffering, do not make me wake up". And every night s/he answers your prayer. Try it with a different twist. "Have mercy on my suffering, help make me wake up and remember"

archarios 4y ago

Yeah I suppose if we had fully automated space communism already I may have a different viewpoint..

nonrandomstring 4y ago
Makes me wonder. If we did have automated luxury communism, would people like me just not be satisfied and struggle to find new "problems"? Alexis De Toqueville described the "American Spirit" as one of "restiveness"... itching to change and move (FWIW I'm British but tarn with the same brush). There's a funny line in "Analyse This" where Bully Crystal's character says innocently to Robert De Niro... "What are you going to do this summer?" And the Mafioso gangster (De Niro) replies; "About What?!"

annyeonghada 4y ago

>duty life demands of you I have no duty towards life. I didn't choose to be born, did I? In fact, I vegetate waiting to have enough strength to suppress my fear of death and kill myself. Yes, I've tried therapy in the last 15 years. Yes, I've tried exercise, meditation, journaling, workaholism, idleness, religion, philosophy, science and so on and on. I just want to be done. Every evening I pray to deities I don't believe in: "Have mercy on my suffering, do not make me wake up". So, no: there is no duty towards anything, just the futility of existence in itself.

nnoitra 4y ago
nonrandomstring 4y ago
> I didn't choose to be born, did I? According to the Bardo, Veda, Platonic Phaedo and Tibetan Book of the Dead, yes you did. You just don't remember why your immortal soul chose this adventure. > Every evening I pray to deities I don't believe in: "Have mercy on my suffering, do not make me wake up". And every night s/he answers your prayer. Try it with a different twist. "Have mercy on my suffering, help make me wake up and remember"