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Entertainment doesn’t give you any “free time” but rather takes it away. Mass-manufactured “leisure” activities turn you into a prisoner. The modern spirit boasts an oddly painful tendency to standardize even the most spontaneous human expressions. We globally agree to have “fun” based on the same rules, rhythm, and intensity. Technology only makes
... See moreVizi Andrei • The Sovereign Artist
‘Yes, it is a sign that rough work is unnecessary to him. He works with his mind…’
‘Possibly, but still it seems to me strange that while we country people try to get over our meals as quickly as we can so as to be able to get on with our work, here you and I try to make our meal last as long as possible, and therefore eat oysters.’
‘Well, of
... See moreMan has achieved his present position by being the most aggressive and enterprising creature on earth. And now he has created a comfortable civilization, he faces an unexpected problem... The comfortable life lowers man's resistance, so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth... The comfortable life causes spiritual decay.
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
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