A Good Life
- We are taught to aspire to prestige, taught to fetishize the idea of the thing instead of enjoying the thing itself. If you raise kids that way, you end up with a generation that prefers porn to sex. It’s Narcissus mesmerized by his own reflection: you’d rather watch yourself looking good than actually live .
from Entry Points by Ava
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If I Knew Then
meghna added 25d ago
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b
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- Optimize your life for those who know you most, not least.
alex added 4mo ago
The “5 salaries” idea: jobs pay you financially, educationally, psychologically, socially, and in freedom.
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