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This is like, the secret to life. If you can enjoy exercise, healthy eating, working on your relationship, and challenging impactful work, spiritual inquiry, et
by xyzelement 4y ago
This is like, the secret to life. If you can enjoy exercise, healthy eating, working on your relationship, and challenging impactful work, spiritual inquiry, etc. you are set
- Jensson 4y agoIf you can enjoy being fat, being alone, being lazy and oblivious you are set as well.
- qup 4y agoI seem to enjoy both of those, so I guess I have a lot of options.
- deebosong 4y agoCan't tell if serious or not, but this sounds like Homer Simpson. Granted he's got a family, but he's seemed to be fairly neglectful towards his family's actual needs, talking past them and hearing only what he wants to hear in light of his family members' literal words spoken lol.
- stemlord 4y agoWhy downvote? It's an interesting cultural take.
- marcosdumay 4y agoWe seem to be programed to never enjoy such things. It's basically impossible. But the GP's set are a possibility, and not certain at all. So it is worth pointing.
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- copperx 4y agoImpossible? we are programmed to LOVE all of those things, except for being alone, which can't be learned away. Is there anyone with special genetic makeup that naturally rejects idleness and high-calorie foods?
- leobg 4y ago“Freedom is not the ability to get what you want. It’s the ability to want what is good for you.”
- cratermoon 4y agoInterestingly, James Williams points out in his book Stand Out of Our Light that the technology of the "attention economy" doesn't does distract us from our immediate goals and into internet holes, but over time diverts us from wanting what is good for us.
- leobg 4y agoExactly. And they get away with it precisely because we believe in this wrong notion of freedom. We’re still stuck at the 2nd stage of the three transformations that Nietzsche outlined back in the 1980s. Which is essentially to think we’re free only because we get to reject people who outright tell us what to do. He said, “Free though callest thyself? Free of what - what do I care about it. But free to do what? That is what thy gleaming eyes shall tell me!” It also helps that no one is paying any attention to BF Skinner anymore. It’s not the people who tell you what to do that you should fear. It’s those who know how to make you do it voluntarily.