Play Slow
In his work ‘On the Meaning of Life’ (1927), Schlick writes: ‘[T]he deification of work as such, the great gospel of our industrial age, has been exposed as idolatry.’ He argues that true meaning in life can be found only in those things that ‘exist for their own sake and carry their satisfaction in themselves,’ only in ‘free, purposeless action …
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
Whatever we had in mind (consciously or subconsciously) isn’t what’s happening. Instead, it’s more difficult, overwhelming, or dull than we’d envisioned.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of claiming it.
maria popova
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)
McLuhan noted that “when information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and social adjustment become irrelevant.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Disorders of Our Collective Consciousness
Das neuzeitliche Pathos des Neuen löst das Sein in den Prozess auf. Unter den Bedingungen des Neuen ist kein kontemplatives Leben möglich. Kontemplation ist Wiederholung. Das Pathos des Handelns, das sich nun mit der Emphase des Neuen verbindet, setzt viel Unruhe in die Welt.
Byung-Chul Han • Vita Contemplativa
“The fast way is the slow way because the slow way is the only way”
– Steven Bartlett