Let me play devil’s advocate tho and say:
You can still do this if you really want to and you have at least double the life expectancy. I think we have become too good at entertainment and have collectively fried our dopamine receptors with instant reward, therefore making mundane work unbearable.
Finding joy in the quiet time doing the mundane work I CARE about (lots of yard work, construction, and taking care of my animals) is some of the most important meditative-type time that I spend, I have learned.
It makes work more bearable to more enjoyable when I can find a similar mental state, listening to the same music, etc.
True, but the advancements boil down to late 19th century ideas like “wash your hands after the autopsy before delivering Ms Green’s baby”, which the medical establishment pushed hard against at the time. Tells you a lot about the medical mindset…
“Despite his research, Semmelweis’s observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it.”
Yeah. Work can actually be pretty cool. Like, yes, id usually rather be having an orgasm from injecting cheesecake and a few grams of lsd directly into relevant places, but even if i coukd fo that all the time, id still want a little variety.
Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.
I feel you.
Let me play devil’s advocate tho and say: You can still do this if you really want to and you have at least double the life expectancy. I think we have become too good at entertainment and have collectively fried our dopamine receptors with instant reward, therefore making mundane work unbearable.
Finding joy in the quiet time doing the mundane work I CARE about (lots of yard work, construction, and taking care of my animals) is some of the most important meditative-type time that I spend, I have learned.
It makes work more bearable to more enjoyable when I can find a similar mental state, listening to the same music, etc.
Where does this myth come from?
https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php
I know that life expectancy was mostly low because of infant mortality. Still the advancements in medicine cannot be denied.
And if you applied modern medicine to hunter gatherers, yeah. They’d live longer.
But it barely counteracts the negative effects of the trash we eat the horror we live and the toxic squalor we do it in.
True, but the advancements boil down to late 19th century ideas like “wash your hands after the autopsy before delivering Ms Green’s baby”, which the medical establishment pushed hard against at the time. Tells you a lot about the medical mindset…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
“Despite his research, Semmelweis’s observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it.”
Nah. I still like mundane work when its for people i care about. When there are people i care about.
It’s the capitalism and petty tyrannies that do it.
Not the work.
I can definitely get behind this. It also makes me feel good about myself to help people I like.
Yeah. Work can actually be pretty cool. Like, yes, id usually rather be having an orgasm from injecting cheesecake and a few grams of lsd directly into relevant places, but even if i coukd fo that all the time, id still want a little variety.
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Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.
nah, we worked to build it, we deserve the free time it entails. we don’t actually need a handful of oligarchs to keep all the spoils.
I agree with that, but I don’t think these statements necessarily contradict each other.