I’m also increasingly wary of people fetishizing maintenance as some sort of noble behavior. It’s just another behavior like manufacturing 🧐
Maintenance virtue signaling is annoying. Kintsugiwashing.
I don’t want a damn sacred golden seam in my cracked bowl.
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I suspect once we learn to internalize full-lifecycle circular economy environmental costs we’ll get a less distorted view of repair/replace/dispose tradeoffs. Right now it’s a religious war between the Church of Efficiency and the Temple of Repairability.
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Kintsugiwashing is the primary ritual behavior of Waldenponders.
I could do a whole insult-comic standup routine around this.
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If you've started a sentence with "That's a perfectly good..." you might be a Waldenponder.
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Now if you'll excuse me, I have to flat grind my sharpening stone with another, coarser sharpening stone.
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