#media/article Link:: https://nayafia.substack.com/p/24-monasteries?r=2037y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy Author:: Nadia Eghbal Summary:: sounding an alarm on the indifference and apathy in our reactions to our daily lives being torn apart and especially our intellectual creativity being taken away from us. Argues and questions whether we need to mimic monasteries and find retreats away from the burning world to keep these alive ^QSS-GNX21
- “We’re so obsessively focused on getting through a normal day-to-day that we can’t even see how much we’ve lost. Even now, I’m typing this while trying to figure out which daybed to order for my living room and whether to enroll my new cat in kitten kindergarten. Kaczynski would call these "surrogate activities": hobbies that work toward artificial goals, but are ultimately unsatisfying”
- Kaczynski on surrogate activities which are hobbies that work towards artificial goals but are ultimately unsatisfying