262 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 26 May \ parent \ on: Bubbles to live in mostly_harmless
At the same time, people can get lost in trying to find the things that will make them happy, instead of focusing on the things that do.
Argh, yes. That's the meta lesson, I think: attribute this variance properly. Put your efforts into the places where they have leverage.
There's too much reality to be taking it all in anyway, so you have to discriminate between which aspects you're getting exposure to. Why shouldn't that discrimination be aligned with your values?
Succinctly put.
What other criteria should take precedence?
My change of heart is that nothing else should have precedence. Still trying to figure out how best to include the rest, though.
I spent some time in Venezuela for a stretch. Caracas was a hellscape, just as you often hear about, but I had a friend who had a little place in a country town, nestled partway up a mountain, that was a tiny paradise in the midst of it -- the physical version of the more expansive topic that I wrote about here. It was such a jewel. I keep thinking that that is what I want for myself.
And yet, even if you don't believe in the Devil, the Devil believes in you. Figuring out my relationship with the Devil is an equal part of it.
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Still trying to figure out how best to include the rest
My approach to this is letting the interests of people I enjoy interacting with steer the ship a little bit. I can step a bit outside of my direct interests, for the sake of enhancing a relationship (and potentially expanding my horizons while I'm at it).
I remember @k00b making a really interesting point about what was lost when we gave up newspapers, though. Our environments are so curated now that we don't have easy avenues for random (and shared) information exposure.
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