The modern tragedy is that so many people are restless, constantly planning, worrying, dissociating, fantasizing, ruminating, or in general thinking about whatever caught their attention in that moment.
But then those same people are also really bad at thinking.
The truth is that thinking is fairly uncommon, rather what you find is mentation. Genuine, conscious thinking is much more calm and self-aware. It would pay attention to the frames that one is using to examine the world, and realize that a great deal of those are inherited, not derived rationally as so many claim. Mentation on the other hand is automatic: one thought after another, seemingly at random, except that they all lead back to the activities that society benefits one, i.e. activities that don’t require consciousness, such as consumption, distraction, etc. What a strange coincidence.
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2024-04-13