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We use so much tech to optimize our lives and save time

All that free time, what are we even doing with it?

Rarely truly resting. Always on alert. Always stressed.

I find that I experience a different type of satisfaction when I use older tools in my farm. That exhaustion feels rewarding. I think we were meant to engage more of our senses, to be creative. But not everyone has that space nor means.

But also, I think our lives, standardized, are always about doing something and we learn to feel unimportant if we aren't active.

We are stuck in these routines so long that when we take a break, we feel worthless and we can't enjoy our own company without all the guilt and depressive thinking.

Perhaps it is because when we use too much tech , someone else built, deep down we feel like we have accomplished nothing of our own, despite of spending countless hours busy.

The guilt ends up seeping in our bit of free time and we waste it being here arguing with hypiejoe.
SW-User
You are pretty perceptive here, modernity indeed minimalizes our self esteem, for me however it's different, at least i think so, it was all over long ago and with the things i can do now, i can please myself mentally, for example today i am getting plastered and being more active here, i don't think i necessarily will be a buffoon, it opens up my conversational skills a little is all, and then i feel i have partook in a world which isn't the actual world i've said uh uh to by my louder than words actions.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
I heard two women in their 50s-60s talking in the waiting room this spring and one said: "I don't know if all this working from home thing is any good. I see how my son wakes up, has breakfast, gets on the computer, orders pizza for lunch and in the evening gets off the computer. What kind of life is that?"
I felt it.

I think we all miss that kind of exhaustion from good old manual work in fresh air from time to time.
It is a good time to take a break or log off when you start arguing with people :
1. You will never meet
2. You will never convince to change ideology or even consider the other side
3. You will not recall in ur deathbed
Miram · 31-35, F
@PepsiColaP

That wasn't meant to be taken literally.
Coppercoil · M
Its why i wish i could buy property and live off grid. Unfortunately i think ill be chaimed to this modern life like a romam slave in the hull of a ship destine to go down with it when it finally sinks.
The tech has only meant we do tasks faster so in turn we get more tasks to do.
@Ozymandiaz thats not necessarily true ,it also has made it that the price of many products are lower and the quantity is higher too. Especially when we are talking about labour and time intensive activities like agriculture.
@PepsiColaP It has done that too
fun4us2b · M
This may be the one thing you and hypiejoe can agree on!
Precisely that happened with me. Too much rest gets to me.
Chelsiegirl · 46-50, T
I make time to just say fuck it im going to relax..
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
I think you are most accurate with the thought that we feel we must be doing something all the time. That we no longer know what it is to rest. Unlike your line of thinking though, I don't blame technology. I blame our economic system. We're set up in a hypercompetitive system where idle time makes us feel like we are falling behind. Society compares us by the time we devote to working, and so we are inclined to do the same.

Buckminster Fuller once suggested that we could use our technology enhanced productivity to create the 16 hour work week as full employment. Instead, we are tied ever more strongly to our labor in order to generate and sustain a few more billionaires. And left to feel guilty if we actually have time to spare.

 
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