I’ve managed to pretty cheerfully get through 45 years of life with no dreams. Distractions are a very good substitute. Complaints about life being unfair are the dawning of useful insights Excuses are the spice of coffee breaks
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Doerism as a personal preference is great, yay Doerism as hustleporn is tolerable. Emotional labor tax to support universe-denters psyche-sustaining self-talk Doerism as a universalist normative philosophy is to be resisted with all the boneless passivity you can conjure
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Well maybe I do have a sort of dream https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1174152501018296320?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1174152501018296320 …
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Dragging your feet and rolling your eyes is a more potent mode of agency than doerists like to admit, which is why it can be infuriating to well-intentioned people trying to cause positive change. The trick to motivation is to drop the “positive” and just drive change.
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Exhortation is not inspiration. Exhortation is the in-group amplifier drug among already-aligned and activated doers. For the inertial out-group the change-seeking tribe wants to mobilize, the key to motivation is creating disequilibrium.
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Sure. I’m giving the steelman version of the doerist argument the benefit of the doubt and assuming an opt-in comparison set for whom the exhortation would not be situationally unreasonable. My point is, choosing not to hustle is a valid life choice requiring no justification.
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That’s tue as well, and a valid alt vector of critique, though in this thread I’m assuming it’s a discourse among otherwise equi-privileged people.
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It’s a bit like ceremonial language around “our troops.” If you believe war and military functions in society are basically a pragmatic necessity, you say “thank you for your service” an move on, leaving larger questions of militarism and futile/bad wars to other conversations.
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Innovation is a pragmatic neccessity in modernity, so you accept the ceremonial discourses around it
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it seems innovation was always a pragmatic necessity, but in prior ages authorities and ruling classes were just more often than not insulated from their failures to do it
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