Do What You Love

Re:Do What You Love by pavlov on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:44AM (#4083475)

If given a complete lack of want, I'm convinced the majority of the world's population will choose to do nothing creative with it, and spend it socializing, fucking, and eating.

The reality TV show Big Brother is strong evidence in favor of your argument.

It's an artificial environment where people are aggressively prevented from creating anything. You can't even smuggle a pencil and a piece of paper into the Big Brother house -- if you wanted to write or draw something, you'd have to do it with your own blood on the walls, I guess... Once you're in there, your life for the next N months will consist solely of socializing, fucking and eating.

Amazingly, there are millions of people who find this prospect so exciting that they apply for the show year after year.

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Re:Do What You Love by TorKlingberg on Friday June 08, 2012 @07:11AM (#4083653)

I don't think we should draw general conclusions about humanity based on reality show contestants. The draw to participate in Big Brother is that the house is full of TV cameras. Which, ironically, could actually be described as creating something.

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