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The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions (clivethompson.medium.com)
3 points by chrbutler on April 16, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


What a gorgeous article on rewilding & what humans do with slack & freedom, on their own devices.

There was a submission on culture being stuck, and the lead comment being on a lack of surplus for creativity & capacity for exploration struck me deeply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589115

It's hard to imagine how a more grim human future, where there just isn't the time space & finances for impulsive, persistent, curious fucking around & finding out. This article is a good testament to what having slack & time & freedom permits. The alternate-history version of humanity where we were all chained to the feudalistic machine is grim.




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