Re:The Disneyfication of a University
by austhrow743 on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:37PM
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>World is full of pain and sufferings
This is exactly why you need to put an inordinate focus on the bright side.
>You are supposed to feel empathy for other people and feel bad for their misfortune even if you have the good luck of not going through suffering
Yeah if you live in a tribe of like 30 people maybe. You can't scale that sort of empathy to collectives the size of "all coworkers at $bigco". That's way too much empathising. Way too many people who are going to be down. Particularly in an office. You can't combine "unmasked feelings" and "dreaded place we have to be compensated to go to".
>I just don't understand this obsession of feeling good all the time. If you have never felt sadness, pain, shame, or embarrassment, is it something to brag about?
It's not about feeling good all the time. It's about not throwing your bad feelings at people who also feel bad while 50 other bad feeling people do the same.
This is exactly why you need to put an inordinate focus on the bright side.
>You are supposed to feel empathy for other people and feel bad for their misfortune even if you have the good luck of not going through suffering
Yeah if you live in a tribe of like 30 people maybe. You can't scale that sort of empathy to collectives the size of "all coworkers at $bigco". That's way too much empathising. Way too many people who are going to be down. Particularly in an office. You can't combine "unmasked feelings" and "dreaded place we have to be compensated to go to".
>I just don't understand this obsession of feeling good all the time. If you have never felt sadness, pain, shame, or embarrassment, is it something to brag about?
It's not about feeling good all the time. It's about not throwing your bad feelings at people who also feel bad while 50 other bad feeling people do the same.