Why do people feel they /have/ to be useful for society? Why do some people even get anxiety for "waisting their time" with fun and entertainment? Do they hate their enjoyment and themselves or something?
Any books that might explain this mindset?
I've never felt guilty about playing videogames or reading fiction or just spending an entire afternoon in my room or in a public park just thinking. I don't get it.
Why do people feel they /have/ to be useful for society...
Austin Robinson
Lincoln Young
We evolved living in small tribes where everybody knew what you were doing and if you weren't useful you'd get killed.
This is probably the origin of their anxiety.
Carter Sullivan
>if you weren't useful you'd get killed
Do anthropologists have any accounts of Indian or african tribes killing their useless?
Carson Lopez
slave morality
Jaxon Parker
Democracy is to blame. It gives plebs a taste of the good life, but they'll always be plebs, so they squander it—and even hurt themselves on it.
Jacob Ross
Almost everyone in history died as small farmers or pyramid block movers.
Not everyone is a great man. And most discoveries in science are not by 'great men' but just as a result of being alive, not genius. Creating a door is not genius, nothing physical is genius. I wouldn't worry about 'wasting your time'
Ryder Carter
What's interesting is that this perfectly captures what the dialectic of enlightenment is about. We started out in primitive cohabitation where utility was everything, became self-aware through rationality and aesthetic refinement, and have now arrived at a point in time in which everyone can see and hear about what you are doing through social media and data, so in a way you have to offer some kind of tribal "value", even if that value is purely aesthetic, or pointless. If you're not contributing to the collective, you're not fulfilling your "duties". But these measures of success are ultimately worthless– what matters is how much you hesitate when saying if your life was worth living.
Parker Green
i don't have any contribution to make to your post, but nice post
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Isaac Morgan
Because they're not hedonistic scum. They may even understand that such frivolous pleasures are not the way to make the world less shit.
Logan Cooper
>Why do people feel they /have/ to be useful for society?
Agreed. They don't and indeed shouldn't.
>Why do some people even get anxiety for "waisting their time" with fun and entertainment?
Disagree. You should be productive for your own self. In fact, these frivolous quick, easy to eat distractions are what the wagie and consumer craves. It's low IQ and requires no effort to do them. You want to be at home all day, only to waste it.