Re:How to Drop Out (2004)
by kilpikaarna on Monday January 01, 2024 @04:10AM
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Wow, I guess How to Drop Out is 20 years old this year.
I would've found it a few years later, in my early twenties. Definitely influenced me to try to prioritize free time and pursuing my own interests over a concentional "career". Hard to say if it's been the right choice, overall, but I've done okay.
I don't think the essay was ever meant as a piece of rigorous social or moral philosophy, more like motivational writing in the anarchist/anti-civ style of the day. Even less so after the author distanced himaelf from it and added the disclaimers. But I still think it has a lot of good points for people feeling out of place in midern industrial society. Especially the parts about purity va pragmatism.
Not sure if you still lurk HN, but: Hi Ran, and Thank You!
I would've found it a few years later, in my early twenties. Definitely influenced me to try to prioritize free time and pursuing my own interests over a concentional "career". Hard to say if it's been the right choice, overall, but I've done okay.
I don't think the essay was ever meant as a piece of rigorous social or moral philosophy, more like motivational writing in the anarchist/anti-civ style of the day. Even less so after the author distanced himaelf from it and added the disclaimers. But I still think it has a lot of good points for people feeling out of place in midern industrial society. Especially the parts about purity va pragmatism.
Not sure if you still lurk HN, but: Hi Ran, and Thank You!