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I think we might be in a better place if we didn’t stigmatize people for just being content instead of endlessly ambitious
It’s weird to talk about “a wealth of opportunities to learn” without asking about opportunities to benefit from the knowledge.
Like, the number one reason Americans learn Japanese is to… watch anime, play Japanese video games, and consume other Japanese culture. Virtually no one is getting an economic benefit out of it.
Same with a lot of technical skills - why am I learning how to build a raspberry pi server if not to improve my home media center? Or learning to cook or bake or grill, if not to enjoy a nice meal? Why learn home repair if not to make your house a little nicer?
For the handful of people who want to turn this into a career or a business? Cool. Good luck.
But just because the sky is the limit doesn’t mean that’s what you need to aim for.
I think the difference is historically hobbies involved making things (woodworking, model building, sewing, playing music, drawing, writing, scrapbooking, etc.) or were purely physical (hiking, playing sports, shooting things, etc.) partly out of necessity due to home media being practically nonexistent outside of books and magazines which require literacy (a high bar up to about the 20th century)
Within about one generation we went from books and magazines being the only mass market home media to suddenly having access to more home media than we could ever consume. My grandmother has told me about her family getting their first TV and how she imagined it would be like a radio with a little screen you could walk up to and see a static image depicting what’s being described when you wanted to but would otherwise listen to like radio
People are now by default consumers, where even just 50 years ago it was still the default for people to make stuff, fix stuff, etc. at home. Boredom drove skill building, now boredom just drives consumption. To make matters worse, mass digitization ultimately came in the form of smartphones with apps powered by addictive algorithms, so people (myself included) are addicted to the cheap dopamine that these screens of colorful lights provide us. This is the crux of the matter, and there’s a growing trend (partly driven by enshitification) of de-digitizing as people realize how bad these screens are for our mental health
I’m with you there, the lack of boredom-based drive and opportunities, and the constant distracting dopamine drip feed, are real things. At least in the circles I’ve found myself in, it’s been really cool to see so many people picking up on that and making deliberate efforts to avoid over-convenience and constant low effort entertainment. Lots of people ditching smartphones, adopting the “treat the internet as a place you go instead of a constant presence” philosophy, setting up their own websites and homeservers, people getting into more non-digital tools and hobbies, and stuff like that. It’s been a great source of hope and optimism for me in these wild times
Just knowing that the knowledge is so freely available is good enough for me. I’m in act 3 of BG3 baby, I’m not stopping now.
People used all the knowledge at their fingertips to make games ppl would be happy to just play and I think that’s fine
It is fine to spend time experiencing human culture in its various forms. I doubt that anyone would see it as being negative he were reading a novel in that last panel.
“why are you playing video games when you could be doing research?”
“LOL go fuck yourself”
plays DRG “ROCK AND STONE”
Yes but, have you played games?! They’re so fun!!
Best I can do is play Skyrim again
I’m feeling targeted
So I’m researching a nice oldschoolisg RPG or similar, any ideas?
I could’ve been learning something or playing a game, yet I type this stupid comment on Lemmy
Fifty years ago people weren’t expected to live in libraries, either. This is unnatural pressure we put on ourselves and we can just stop it.
Too fucking relatable. It’s nice zoning out every once in a while with a game, but it too easily replaces time spent working on yourself and growing. I think the current place we are in in our culture leaves us starved for a life lived full measure and we can somewhat scratch that itch with games, but ultimately it’s no real substitute and without finding a way to really actualize our own potential into the real world we set ourselves up for disaster and deep deep regret and dissolutionment
Have fun and enjoy life during our short time on this ride. Dude’s doing it right.
CORN
CHILD
This is what the sticky is about I think.
Edit: OP created an other fake account named grimy2 just to downvote me lol. I guess I’m right.
We are now at 3 fake accounts just for me, and OP, in terms of downvotes.
And now he is mass down voting the sticky and my comment history.
Some people are just strange, man.
