Everyone looks so tired these days, is it just me? Bags upon bags under their eyes. It probably has a lot to do with all those screens, and the busy-ness of modern life, which is funnily enough, rarely productive either.
Hard work mostly strikes me as a form of virtue signalling, a way of boosting your “social capital”—I hate that term but it describes the mentality of those people rather well—because those who actually do good work don't work “hard” or “grind”, they just work on what they want.
As a result, I'd say that people typically get stuck in this zone where they work hard at something they don't really care about, because they think that it is what being a good person consists of, and then they don't really rest either because digital media constantly gives you something to watch or listen to. Such that when people are done with work, they don't really rest, they “consume”—another term I hate but which once again perfectly describes the apathetic relationship to entertainment—or binge or go on stressful holidays that consists in filling a huge to-do list. Neither meaningful work nor peaceful rest, such is the state of modern man.
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2024-08-05