Re:We quit our jobs to build a cabin
by huntilio on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:27PM
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There's nothing left to worship, so you're seeing a confluence of 2 forms of modern worship: a return to nature / primitive living (where we can imagine away the distractions of modern living), and worship of the self / fame, where we create these myths of ourselves and tell that story / get a bunch of people to be interested. I suspect neither one is very fulfilling, but I understand the impulse (especially the first one).
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Re:We quit our jobs to build a cabin
by marktangotango on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:42PM
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One need only cite Emerson and Thoreau to see this has in fact been going on for quite some time.
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, by the seashore, in the mountains; and you too are wont to desire such things very much. But this is a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire within yourself.”
Marcus Aurelius, ~1800 years ago