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That's the convenience paradox: the more we optimize our lives, the less we actually live them.
We're becoming masters of arrangement rather than action, curators instead of creators. Life risks turning into a series of frictionless transactions where we're always efficiently arriving but never really traveling.
In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
Simone
Most of us do not find fictional worlds appealing because we find our own lives despicable, though censorious people often make that assumption. Auden once wrote that “there must always be … escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep.” The sleeper does not disdain consciousness.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
Maybe the media outlets that embarrassed themselves with Jeffrey Epstein and Sam Bankman-Fried should pay more attention to them instead of anointing another wealthy malefactor as a serious thinker.
How Jeffrey Epstein Became a Public Intellectual
Ted Gioia
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