Surprisingly hard to make meaning through work when everyone is home literally+psychologically. Otoh it’s hard to make meaning through home at all. Would you rather have a 100 households of 2.6 people each use your instagrammed recipe, or a single org of 260 people use your work?
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The home is fun and all, but most civilization happens in larger aggregates.
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A world confined largely to domesticity is an extraordinarily dull world. Who knew. 20% domestic cozy is healing and comforting. 80% is unlivable. It’s like life in a true dictatorship. I wonder if life in dictatorships feels much less disrupted.
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I mean if there’s nothing to do outside the home besides go to one bad restaurant or wander an ugly plaza pondering a Dear Leader statue, a virus doesn’t have much fun to suck out of life.
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I have no interest in things like concerts or sportsball games but I do like going to the larger game of a buzzing non-domestic economy everyday, and encountering people in non-domestic immersive contexts.
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Don’t mind me. I’m trying to be eloquently bored here. Just saying “I am bored” is too easy.
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More than lower productivity at home, which I don’t give a crap about, enforced super-domesticity does a number on motivation. I’m working more than ever mostly because sights have been lowered. Ambitions more modest, shrinking with horizons to “domestic”.
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This is the future lifestyle business types want. It’s awful. It’s also the future minarchists who fetishize Switzerland village life want. That’s awful too.
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My motivation pattern is mostly built around one-rep max edge (though not for actual weight training). This is like going brrrr at 10% of that.
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