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[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Everyone should read this book.

In Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Pieper dismantles modernity's obsession with productivity and its misunderstanding of leisure.

Moderns think of "leisure" as a break from work: a way to recharge to make you a better worker.

Pieper argues beautifully that, instead, leisure is the foundation of all culture. And rather than passive relaxation, leisure is really a state of active receptivity: not the absence of activity but the presence of depth.

In the High Middle Ages, idleness wasn't understood as "doing nothing." Being idle was refusing to engage deeply with existence. Ironically, the modern workaholic is the true idler: "the restlessness of work-for-work's-sake arises from nothing other than idleness."

Engaging in true leisure isn't easy. You must learn to be at leisure, with intention and willingness to cultivate stillness. Pieper:

"The condition of utmost exertion is more easily realized than the condition of relaxation and detachment, even though the latter is effortless."

It's a paradoxical discipline, in the sense that it requires effort to relax in a way that truly restores you. But it is through leisure that you encounter truth, beauty, and meaning.

Pieper writes much about the role of the festival. If creation is good, we ought to celebrate it:

"And just as Holy Scripture tells us that God rested on the seventh day and beheld that ‘the work which he had made’ was ‘very good’—so too it is leisure which leads man to accept the reality of creation and thus to celebrate it, resting on the inner vision that accompanies it."

In our work-obsessed world, many use parties to drug or otherwise distract themselves from life. But in Pieper's conception, a true party is a heightening and celebration of life, a specific and time-bound event that points to the timeless and universal.

"Feast days and holy-days are the inner source of leisure. It is because leisure takes its origin from ‘celebration’ that it is not only effortless but the direct contrary of effort; not just the negative in the sense of being no effort, but the positive counterpart."

However, the biggest revelation comes when you realize that you can actually reverse-engineer this process and turn even "ordinary" moments into moments of leisure.

No matter where you are, leisure can be found when you let reality wash over you, pierce through the veil of mundanity to see its hidden beauty, and take a moment to express your gratitude.

[Alex A. @Alex_philosoph]

Dos libros olvidados y que considero muy buenos para introducirse en Platón («Memoria del Logos») y Aristóteles («Memoria de la ética», centrado en su filosofía práctica, aunque comience con la ética homérica).
Son más que introducciones: Lledó piensa con ellos para el presente.

[Goy Gems @GoyGems]

Comic by @stonetoss

[Uncommon Sense @Uncommonsince76]

The reality of the world is much more simplistic than everybody wants to admit.

It’s just tribal warfare, and the Jews are winning because they convince all the other tribes that it’s not tribal warfare while being the most tribalistic and racist of them all.

[Goy Gems @GoyGems]

Comic by @GPrime85

[Goy Gems @GoyGems]

Comic by @BigLeagueComics

[Savvy @sweet_muffinnn]

Chad women 🥰 Salute to her.

[Autumn 🍂 @doggygoth]

is it my turn to post this one yet

[Laura Vivar @vivarlaura_]

Me piden en clase que recomiende libros de mitología. Les doy una lista, pero hago hincapié en esta joya. El Pierre Grimal, el diccionario con el que pasé horas en mi habitación de adolescente fascinada, reptando de una historia a otra. Nunca he dejado de consultarlo.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

“You can’t be funny without being offensive” Meanwhile...

[Pepito @CosmePepito]

“Llegaron los meseros” en múltiples idiomas.

[Favalli @masterganjaok]

Los peligros de la IA

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

Philosophy accessories.

[george glooney @smoothmeatya]

Incredibly well written joke

[Seamus McCarthy @capernicus418]

Another #antiWhite Hush crime!