Don’t write off blue collar work because you’re smart.
Eric Hoffer was a philosopher who spent most of his life doing manual labor as a fruit packer and longshoreman, before ending his career as a professor at Berkeley with several best selling books to his name.
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When I was a student, spending the day on technical literature, I made it a habit to read for 45-60 minutes at night to get my mind off things. I read Anna Karenina this way. Magic Mountain. Brothers Karamazov. Sleepwalkers (Broch - not enough people know this one).
Later working I kept this up as far as I could. Kundera came in. I read War and Peace mostly on the Subway. Houellebecq.
It can be a therapeutic thing. You disengage from the day to day - which can be very unpleasant - and let someone smarter than you inhabit your mind. And that will make you smarter. And happier probably.
Down in the withered grasses something stirred
I thought it was his footfall that I heard. Then a grasshopper chirred
I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road.
My heart lays down its load.
- the Shi King
@L0m3z Solzhenitsyn speaks of the submission of victims thus:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking…We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
@avidseries With hootsuite and buffer, I’m super efficient at posting. Replies, graphics and engagement farming would be the most time committment, but honestly, if I’m having fun I’ll have no problem spending way too much time on this.