Living on 24 hours a day

Re:Living on 24 hours a day by AussieWog93 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:47PM (#29930036)

Just as you can go too hard on getting sucked into social media and other vices, you can definitely over-optimise your time and turn into a robot as well.

Maybe it's important for your sanity to spend two hours a day reading Wikipedia articles about the Wehrmacht or playing Age of Empires 2. Then again, maybe it's not. But approaching your habits from an overly logical, optimisation-focused point of view will destroy your soul. You are a biologically-evolved animal; not an intellectual abstraction.

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Re:Living on 24 hours a day by Liquix on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:04AM (#29930770)

There's nothing wrong with taking a little (or a lot) of leisure time. It's the mindless screen usage and not-relaxing/not-being-productive limbo that are problematic

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Re:Living on 24 hours a day by AussieWog93 on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:48AM (#29932072)

Is it, though?

I'm not a psychologist, but there must be some reason why people "veg out". Before Facebook and Instagram, it was TV. Before then, I'm honestly not sure.

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Re:Living on 24 hours a day by Kifot on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:40AM (#29932013)

Exactly, I feel like the problem is that these days we no longer actually play Age of Empires (which, again, would be fine), we share this time between playing Age of Empires, looking at Instagram and checking out work emails

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