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There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Aristotle observes that the simple accumulation of capital
merits reproach because it concerns only bare life, and not the good life: “So some people believe that this is the task of household management, and go on thinking that they should maintain their store of money or increase it without limit. The reason they are so disposed, however, is that they are preoccupied with living, not with living well. And since their appetite for life is unlimited, they also want an unlimited amount of what sustains it.” Aristotle, Politics, trans. C.D.C. Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998), 17 (1257b)
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
But some of these concerns—not least, the dilemma of how to steer between the Scylla of vapid negativity and the Charybdis of vacuous cheerleading—become moot when you think back to the impulse that lies behind serious criticism: the impulse to analyze, to explain, to teach, to judge meaningfully.
A Critic’s Manifesto
newyorker.com
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