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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 00:04:47 JST simsa04
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- scribe ✒️
Not really. But perhaps keep in mind that the "promise" of technology automating everything was at its height *before* "mass media consumption culture", i.e., the consumer attitude vis-à-vis all things involving a screen.

The "screen age" (a more adequate term than "Anthropocene") doesn't keep people just hooked and bombarded with content; not just convinces people in tech that in order for them to be able to spend even more time with the screen they only need to come up with more problems the solution of which demands more screen connected technology; but that due to their screen interaction the world beomes something recreated on the screen. "Nature" or "world", becoming man-made via screen-ification, turns reduced, stale, boring, and ugly. And how can you care for something that is such? You can't. So as the "world" / "nature" turns out that way, people (naturally) turn away from the (purported) ugliness the "world" has become... and retreat into their own paranoia. No place for relaxation there, quite the opposite.

In all, if "screen age" is a plausible suggestion to you to answer your question, I can share a few book titles. If you think that's the wrong approach, then I would need more info from you to see where your hunches are pointing to.

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- scribe ✒️ (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 00:04:48 JST scribe ✒️
  
  @simsa04 Having trouble replying directly to this https://gnusocial.net/notice/13388628 due to server sync issues I think, but definitely - the trap of being defined by being busy is a challenge for the century ahead. I find it weird that there was this huge promise of technology automating everything, yet it actually brought about this sense of not being able to relax at all. Any good books on that that you know of?
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    mensaje de simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net), el Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 17:32:03 CET - gnusocial.net
    
    When people stop wage-slaving and start "fulfillment labour", things won't change much, as the fulfillment-labour (the self-realization via activities one always wanted to pursue) has still been defined in terms of work and jobs. That is: As soon as people stop wage-slaving, the "real work" they thought they've been "meant" to do, disappears as well. Which is why many people in unemployment suffer so much. IMO, at the base lies a pretty simply question: As people learnt to "define" themselves via their wage-slaving/job/fulfillment-labour, their personality crumbles when they are no longer capable of doing that. Thus the important question becomes: "Who am I when I can no longer define myself via my job/fulfillment-labour?" In order for people to get rid of their addiction to work (*not*: workaholism, but their dependence on defining themselves via their activities and achievements), the 4-day working week will be a necessary step towards making people incrementally get used to a state of being in which they don't "define" themselves via their activity any more. The next step is the dissolution of "defining through one's own activity" towards "defining through activity at all", regardless whether it's "here" or "there". Then definitions like those through ones's relationships, what one has in common with others, etc., may arise Only then are people allowed to take up a pen or a chisel again. :-) When their activity is beyond addiction.

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