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The book goes on to suggest a better path to future prosperity, consisting of:
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more
Umair Haque ⢠Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
but whether parasocial content is desirable or not, it points to a growing crisis on the internet: So much of what we encounter online just doesnât matter , and even worse, offers no mechanism for us to start caring about it. The average human living today sees more things they donât care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their... See more
Drew Austin ⢠The Internet's Meaning Crisis
Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitudeâit is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of âworkerâ in each and... See more
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
âChildren donât see the world, donât observe the world, donât contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they donât distinguish between it and their own selves.â - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow ⢠LF:13 Family Futures
In taming the world, we have tamed ourselves
Poetic Outlaws ⢠The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
The rules had been constructed long before I was born, and I did not know yet I was allowed to break them or redefine them or ignore them entirely.
â Jami Attenberg, I Came All This Way to Meet You
The Satisfaction of Practice in an Achievement-Oriented World
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