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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.
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ViciDraco · 41-45, 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.