Re:For Whom Is the Water Park Fun?
by necovek on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @06:42PM
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Unfortunately, it is never revealed if the author enjoyed the Point Of No Return or not. :)
While I agree on the lack of empathy and understanding of simple thrill seeking and "unreasonable fun" (like sports, gambling, dancing, sex, music, movies, even reading...), the author unwittingly stands up for the few that are peer-pressured to take part in "fun" activities that might frighten or simply not entertain them.
However, the approach the author takes won't help them: it's better to recognize that you personally don't find a particular activity rewarding, and encourage everyone to find something that is. Perhaps it's not even a "few", but a lot. But just being negative does not help better understand how we are forced to do "fun" things we do not enjoy.
And it's also okay if you find fun in something that majority finds fun in (like water parks): you don't have to be absolutely different in every way to count as a smart person :)
By missing to realize this, the author seems like a disgruntled fake-intellectual guy who hates everyone for having any sort of fun and dismisses it as "intellectually useless": even though studies show that "fun" helps us perform better cognitively.
While I agree on the lack of empathy and understanding of simple thrill seeking and "unreasonable fun" (like sports, gambling, dancing, sex, music, movies, even reading...), the author unwittingly stands up for the few that are peer-pressured to take part in "fun" activities that might frighten or simply not entertain them.
However, the approach the author takes won't help them: it's better to recognize that you personally don't find a particular activity rewarding, and encourage everyone to find something that is. Perhaps it's not even a "few", but a lot. But just being negative does not help better understand how we are forced to do "fun" things we do not enjoy.
And it's also okay if you find fun in something that majority finds fun in (like water parks): you don't have to be absolutely different in every way to count as a smart person :)
By missing to realize this, the author seems like a disgruntled fake-intellectual guy who hates everyone for having any sort of fun and dismisses it as "intellectually useless": even though studies show that "fun" helps us perform better cognitively.