I truly don’t get how half of humanity seems to get by with no discernible life of the mind.
I imagine meat-eaters must react to vegetarians like me the way I react to people like that.
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Are you puzzled by how they are able to survive economically without engaging in any participation in knowledge work or befuddled by lack of impetus in engaging in contemplative rumination and armchair thinking?
Either ways, tempted to go full on SJW on you right now.
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No, I don’t mean knowledge. Most of the people I’m thinking of are educated, do knowledge work, and are smart. I mean they take no pleasure in mental life. It’s just a means to non-mental ends.
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I wonder more how they did it before the advent of huge time sinks like TV. What were the people who watch 8 hours a day doing 200 years ago?
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I agree, but I'd assign a weighting because of just how tiring work can be. E.g, consider the sizeable chunk that does 16 hours of backbreaking subsistence level work a day just to feed themselves.
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Most of the humans who ever lived are dead. And they, too, seem to be fairly content. So what? What’s the big deal?
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