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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Everybody in this thread: https://xkcd.com/610/
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Maybe a little of this for good measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error?wprov=sfla1 …
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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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Short answer: they were farming. But those rural communities weren't as hollowed out economically and socially as what exists today. There was community life around rituals of local production (think barn raising, canning foods with neighbors).
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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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It's a curse anyway. Better not have the nonstop thinking machine at all than constantly be figuring out ways to satisfy it.
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