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How do you know it isn't the idleness that is the problem, but instead the environment that they have grown up with? Stressed and overworked parents with low in
by dwaltrip 13y ago
How do you know it isn't the idleness that is the problem, but instead the environment that they have grown up with? Stressed and overworked parents with low incomes that don't foster curiosity and pursuit of beneficial hobbies, etc. These issues are pretty complex.
- ptr 13y agoOf course it's not the idleness per se that's the problem, and what's left? Nature/nurture, so I think you're right. For example, if I were to enter "idleness" I don't think I'd be buying "bling" nor beat on people. For me idleness is awesome, it makes me creative.
- dwaltrip 13y agoI completely agree. One might even argue that idleness would also give well-meaning people the free time necessary to work on effort-intensive community projects that might help mitigate the problems the comment above mine was concerned about in the first place! But humans are tricky creatures, and I can see how it might turn out poorly. I think community interaction, events, and promotion of constructive activities (opt-in and minimal government interference, of course, we still want to maintain freedom of ideas) would be a very important part of any pro-idleness society.
- bane 13y agoIdleness is the symptom. You're absolutely correct that their environment is the problem. Shatter than environment and make it unavailable (I wrote about this at length elsewhere in this thread) and the symptom will go away.