the inconvenience of convenience
by sari and · updated 4d ago
the inconvenience of convenience
by sari and · updated 4d ago
sari added 4d ago
Abigail Disney (the Disney heiress) on how inconveniences keep us human.
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Pedro Parrachia added 7mo ago
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Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We ar
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But we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear. Though understood and promoted as an instrument of liberation, convenience has a dark side. With its promise of smooth, effortless efficiency, it threatens to erase the sort of struggles and challenges that help give
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sari added 1y ago
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dane cads added 2y ago
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Prashanth Narayan added 2y ago
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