Post #1447356
2026-04-20 05:12 UTC
There's this Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad says that if we actually wanted more leisure time, we'd invent machines that did things more slowly, and I think about it all the time.
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@camertron@ruby.social 2026-04-20 05:17
Found it
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@SolarDavy@climatejustice.social 2026-04-20 10:23
@camertron https://xkcd.com/303/ ;)
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@anyGould@kind.social 2026-04-20 15:01
@camertron The dream world:
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@argonaut@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 11:01
@camertron i am convinced that is speed that is killing us, that we’re just going faster than we physically and mentally can. there were two wonderful essayists that first put the seed of those thoughts in my head, long time ago; one is milan kundera with his essay-novel about the pleqsure of slowness and the pain of speed, and the other is paul virilio with his thinking about how speed and technology associate in a quest for power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowness_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Virilio