In the Industrial Age humans were treated as interchangeable parts when they weren’t really, in the digital age, they are treated as special snowflakes when they’re really quite interchangeable
As quality of life and living standards rise, people get more alike, and it feels traumatic
But people struggling to survive end up with differentiated psyches shaped by the peculiarities of their struggles
Well… if you see slacking off as a bug rather than a feature. Personally I work at enjoying whatever slack I can engineer. Why would I eliminate it? If I’ve made the living I need and had the fun I want, no need to do more. It’s not like others can’t do what I don’t. https://twitter.com/JayStephens/status/1420268533125029892…
Solving for survival of the mediocre is the most humane thing. Surrender to evolution as it actually happens. Evolution solves for Good Enough, not Fittest.
One of 3 things is true in this case:
1. Survival is truly hard for you because you’re in bad circumstances (15%)
2. You think you’re a Chosen One and are correct (5%)
3. You think you’re a Chosen One and are mistaken (80%)
Percentages are for middle class anywhere
I kinda appreciate Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles for reasons besides destigmatizing mental health issues. They’re creating a new level above the highest level of a century-old stagnant finite game sports mindset. They’re putting a human value on nationalist symbols like medals.
For most people, your downtime drifts shape your life course more than your uptime aspirations. Even elite Olympic athletes. Paying attention to that and responding to it is something you’ll never regret.
Watch where your mind drifts under slack. It matters more than where it marches when stressed by heavy discipline.
True Chosen Ones have zero drift downtime. They kinda just fully rest like the biblical god on the 7th day or something.
But mere mortals drift in revealing ways.
Extolling the virtues of mediocrapistan is not so different from acting dead. Mediocrities will mediocratize, but up keeps being up and down keeps being down.