"Life isn't all fun and games." Not with that attitude it's not
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AFAICT it requires a practiced intuition to figure out which rote things need doing & which we do out of habit for purposes that don't make much sense. But the better the intuition gets, the more enjoyable these things get. Most tasks aren't "objectively" unenjoyable
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The idea that life is divided into fun thing (earned, relatively rare, & expensive) and not-fun things (done in exchange, common, & necessary) is the mindset of an alcoholic culture. We accrue torture tokens & soothe ourselves w/ what we can buy with them. We have to reject this
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If this sounds anti-capitalist, that's really not the point. The kinds of work most people do are relatively new. Figuring out how to organize around them is tricky & good workplace cultures are fragile. The pace of change is always throwing us off. Lots of room to play with this
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We've managed to get to a spot on the map where we worry about e.g. rudimentary machines replacing human workers who, statistically, have levels of despair you might expect for a person who knows what they do could be done by a rudimentary machine. But we don't have to stay here
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Reminds me of an interview I read with artists BEA.1991 where she talks about being uncomfortable with the idea of vacations in western culture. That normal life is so dull that we must pay large amounts of money to escape for a few weeks into a life of temp paradise.
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And it's the worst-kept secret in the world that people who are unhappy with what they're doing when they're not on vacation are in many cases only marginally less unhappy while they're on vacation
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This applies to exercise, for example. People subject themselves to the most miserable exercise regimens imaginable because they figure the more they suffer, the better it will work. Far better to get moderate, consistent exercise than a bootcamp.
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this seems like the opposite of what is being said? IE: gruelling exercise done properly pays big dividends in shorter time and in the end is highly enjoyable whereas moderate consistency returns moderate gains over a longer term, but both require lifestyle changes.
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All the Yes. I talk about this with my students *constantly*pic.twitter.com/PZF1oQItXD
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Georges Bataille, waste versus expenditure, the philosphy of eroticism and excess
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I speculate that this starts in our hellish Prussian government school system.
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Some of us have not yet known about this idea ...
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