Just randomly got sucked into rich-lifestyles YouTube for 15 minutes. Dubai, Hollywood, etc. The juxtaposition of immense extravagance and immense vacuity...wow. If I was that boring and surrounded by that many equally boring people I too would want infinite toys.
-
Show this thread
-
And right after that, I went back to my physics of time book and had the opposite reaction. Just a peek inside the heads of immensely interesting people whose material lives brevolve around mostly just pen and paper and chalkboards.
1 reply 0 retweets 35 likesShow this thread -
I am wary of fetishizing the life of the mind but damn, the difference is so stark. I’d give up a unit of material plenty for a unit of inner life interestingness nearly all the way to the end of the trade off curve.
4 replies 4 retweets 67 likesShow this thread -
I mean damn, these sheikhs are the richest people who ever lived in many ways and they can’t think of much better things to do with their money than Lamborghinis and falcons and camel races? I have to feel a bit sorry for them.
6 replies 4 retweets 50 likesShow this thread
I looked at specific named people videos. Crown prince this or that etc.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.