Re:America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not...
by kjkjadksj on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:43PM
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The problem isn’t taking time to decompress. Its that there isn’t any time being spent to be active. Most americans are sedentary and its super unhealthy. The fact we’ve established this lifestyle where people sit all day and feel tired from sitting all day and now have to sit all night to relax is terrible for personal health. As an animal we are meant to walk miles and miles foraging for resources and game. If we gave a dog the modern western lifestyle we’d call that animal abuse.
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Re:America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not...
by Spivak on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:12PM
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100% agreed. It's sad that we demonize the symptom of people being constantly burnt out which is the constant need to turn brain off and not the thing burning people out which is our work culture.
It's one of the things I never feel right about complaining about because literally every other aspect of being a "knowledge worker" is great but having to use brain all day means at night I'm physically energized but mentally exhausted which sucks for actually doing anything.
Re:America Is Getting Lonelier and More Indoorsy. That's Not...
by spencerflem on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:22PM
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^ for sure
even within consumption, a lot of the time i feel spent & dont even want to watch a Good tv show, and intentionally pick something really dumb and pointless.