I will admit I hate doing handyman shit now. Used to be proud to be able to do basic stuff as a teenager but jeez it’s high effort, low (psychological) reward. I’d get bored to tears if I had to do full time handyman work like minor maintenance and repairs in a building all day.
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Try to work at the highest abstraction level you’re capable of without becoming authoriritarian-high-modernist legibilist about lower level stuff. Retaining that connection doesn’t take much. Watching someone changing a lightbulb can be as good as doing it yourself.
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Another fabulously unsatisfying maintenance chore done. One more left for tomorrow. And backlog for brave new world of dumbass digital maintenance stuff to take care of.
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List of things I’d have been excited to do as a kid but now just found tedious and annoying and wish had a butler to do: replace car battery
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Two, related Qs: (1) To the extent Wells’ Eloi are alienated from tacit understanding/metis, do you see the difference between their posture and the Morlocks’ as one of degree or kind? (2) Would you revise Wells’ take to increase or decrease the moralizing in his comparison?
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I think the eloi/morlock thing is about class and status really,not epistemology. Going abstract is not the same as going self-indulgent/hedonistic.
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Yep, this. Also think it's a generational-virtue thing. It took me almost a decade to convince my dad to automate maintaining systems, so that the contexts and responsibilities which actually require him to be present, he's able to fully show up for.
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There's usually a lot going on underneath maintenance behavior. If you're frequently engaging in maintenance of a system because it otherwise hampers progress, it's symptomatic of a problem in the system design and long-term economic viability
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