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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
The fact is, a two-trillion-dollar company is asking you to shut yourself off from your family, your friends, and your dog in order fully inhabit an environment manipulated and fine-tuned to serve a growth-at-any-cost ethos. This means you’ll be kept fully passive, and under surveillance at all times, to be be slowly monetized, like a turkey on a slow bake. Don’t let them put a fork in you.
Vision Pro, Unscrambled, Is "I Poison VR"
Mark Hurst
The critical impulse often stems from the justifiable intuition that we must weigh the risks, consider the losses, and quite possibly say “no.” But we cannot live by this “no.” We must live by and for that to which we say “yes.” We will be on better footing, all things considered, if we know the good we ought to pursue, affirm, and possibly defend. Conversely, we will be more likely to surrender, unwittingly perhaps, that which we have not learned to properly value or that which we take for granted.
Owning Our Words: Sounding the Depths of Language
The Convivial Society
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