People often misidentify the cause of this as being societal need for stability. Sending people to school to learn to not follow this instinct so they can then work in factories and offices on make work.
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Replying to @SamoBurja @Tipsycaek
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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Replying to @SamoBurja @Tipsycaek
In other words tribes have this as well, it isn't just a feature of industrialization or modernization.
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Replying to @SamoBurja @Tipsycaek
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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Replying to @blue_traveler @SamoBurja
being boring and generating pointlessness seems like a clear lack of social grace to me
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @SamoBurja
Some of the greatest achievements of humanity have been in categories pointless and boring
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Replying to @blue_traveler @SamoBurja
perhaps one or the other but when both?
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @blue_traveler
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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Replying to @SamoBurja @blue_traveler
if something eventually has a point it is literally not pointless
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It isn't necessarily perceived as such at the time however. I'm pointing to distinguishing the experience of something being pointless from it actually being pointless.
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