"this is pointless and boring" is a valid instinct and its obscene that we do everything in our power to teach people otherwise
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misidentify? whats the actual cause?
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Depends on what exactly you mean by cause, immediately yes school, office and factory are causes of this. But why are these desirable behaviors there? What is ultimate cause? I would argue it is social coping.
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The truth is much worse, the reasons factories and offices have make work: It is a passable strategy for social inclusion. This means ignoring your instinct that something is pointless and boring is a passable psychological coping strategy for inclusion.
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In other words tribes have this as well, it isn't just a feature of industrialization or modernization.
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Instinctive inclination toward inclusion performs better than no instinct for inclusion in all but the rarest cases
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We forgive the absence of social graces in geniuses and visionaries, once they’ve amassed sufficient social capital to justify it
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being boring and generating pointlessness seems like a clear lack of social grace to me
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Some of the greatest achievements of humanity have been in categories pointless and boring
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perhaps one or the other but when both?
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I think it takes a dour mind to do a pointless and boring thing until it becomes useful however. I do think they provide value. I'm not sure I can do much of it however.
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