XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:01:27 -0700, aye  wrote:   
      
   >Noah wrote:   
   >> ansaman wrote:   
   >>> Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Being rational does not make life worth living, Mr.   
   >>>> Spock, and it does not make humans content to live in   
   >>>> cities and spend a large part of their lives working   
   >>>> for a paycheck.   
   >>>   
   >>>Did you earn this position of speaking for everyone?   
   >   
   >Some writers and speakers use pronouns ad hoc. You   
   >might say you, not you of course, someone, when he   
   >or she means his or her own self as if selves were.   
   >   
   >You, in this case, meaning, ansaman.   
   >   
   >Noah may choose to use the word, we, when he   
   >could be speaking for his own personal self and   
   >generalizing, assuming he is not the only one.   
   >   
   >>>Is it conferred in some sort of ceremony?   
   >   
   >Some people like groups. Group-think reinforces   
   >what was forced on children given: language.   
   >   
   >Thinking of being a being, an individual being   
   >for example, most if not all are given: names.   
   >   
   >Identification and alienation, us/them occurs   
   >when thought streams converge and diverge.   
   >   
   >>>Why aren't you in charge if you read the mind of   
   >>>the animus mundi?   
   >>   
   >>You, of course, are free to be the exception.   
   >   
   >Aye was content, living in a city, working for decades   
   >until being able to retire. Then, suddenly, when asked   
   >if to return to visit where working took place, what then   
   >emerged was a very strange kind of anger. Aye hated it.   
      
   Oh, yes.  Then there is the person who, after retiring, feels useless,   
   doesn't know what to do with himself.  That does not mean that this   
   person would choose to go back to work.  Unless living on SS forced   
   him to work at McDonald's or similar.   
      
   >>  I think it is valid to   
   >>explore patterns in human behavior.  Not that everybody conforms.   
   >   
   >Being content, knowing how being alive, a form of Life,   
   >might require work in some form, even if only as a bum,   
   >enabled me to endure a work-place environment, aye.   
      
   Yes, work in some form.  But not necessarily the situation where you   
   hunt rabbits all day long and then give 95% to the boss, if you catch   
   the metaphor.  Better to bring one rabbit home, which pleases the wife   
   who prepares it and feeds it to happy children whose play is not   
   supervised, who know how to entertain themselves, who do not need   
   expensive toys, who enjoy you and you enjoy them, etc.  All YMMV, of   
   course.   
      
   >- for a spell ...   
      
   Notice, I am not talking about the 1%.  Or even about professionals,   
   necessarily.  Although I might be.  There is the situation where the   
   professional feels cramped by the decisions of the 16 year old he once   
   was.   
      
   Noah Sombrero   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)