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QC (4/10 Substack posts)

i went to MIT and studied abroad at cambridge for a year and the biggest cultural difference was that at MIT people competed to signal that they were working as hard as possible - "i stayed up until 3am" etc. - and at cambridge people competed to signal that they did not work

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I actually think it's worth ruminating on why modern culture dictates always looking like you're super busy all the time, that even our aesthetic for leisure, if Instagram is any indication, makes fun look like a lot of fucking work

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QC (4/10 Substack posts)

the ideal at cambridge was to look like you spent 0% of your time studying and 100% of your time drinking but still make it through school somehow. i really did not expect this. felt like a natural aristocracy thing, like signaling being a better kind of human

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collecting RT-with-comments. i don't really know what this means but probably relevant: twitter.com/hpmacd/status/

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calvinism says you don't need to work for your salvation (god does it all); anglicanism is really interested in doing rituals right

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and calvinism = america and anglicanism = england? wouldn't this predict the opposite of the original observation tho?

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yeah, tho there might be differences in theology vs practice? I'm only really familiar with calvinism tbf.

6:09 PM · Oct 23, 2019