You get used to it. If you work your whole life, having vacations or time off work is seen as unproductive time, and that you lack something in your life. People who have been working outside for most of their life, will find retirement not so fun, empty of goals and without the discipline that work brung to their life. More or less, they're less capable of feeling fine with spare time. This is my dad after 4-5 years of retirement (sum it up that in the 3rd world we are living, retirment is aprox 150usd per month, and going vacations to another continent is maybe half or more of your life savings)
You have to be really educated and be aware of the potential risks of losing your attention via the phone. Most of the people just rely on it to not think about stuff or to not think about problems, and maybe for them it's not a choice.
According to Hosfstader, Lakoff and others, metaphor is the core of cognition, the basic algorithm upon which all else runs. It is deeply embedded in the way we perceive the world, and this is reflected in our language; Lakoff catalogued some of the "metaphors we live by" in his book of the same name, and it is surprising how transparently we use metaphor all the time without even being aware of it.
As an intuition pump, consider the following vaguely associated words and their antonyms:
up / good / positive / forwards / fast / white / on / daytime / hot / red / aroused / friendly
down / bad / negative / backwards / slow / black / off / nighttime / cold / blue / bored / indifferent
I'm sure you can add more. You can pick almost any pair of these words and find a phrase that relates them - "I'm feeling blue because Claire called off our date; she's been cold ever since Dave bad-mouthed her."
Interesting, that book caused me to question what I really know and hold my views on metaphore. When you see slime mold "learning" and decent AI emerging, it really starts to throw a wet towel on how amazing we think humans are in general because of our intelligence. Then there's election night.
Sorry, I just read your comment. That teacher just said it like "very often", not that is like a rule that every comparison is a bad argument, but more often than not we tend to go the way of comparisons (think about whataboutism for example)
I'm not too fond of Elon and have blocked him on Twitter because I don't like selfish personalities nor fanatism or personalism from the community, but he's saying normal and rightful stuff in these tweets. You can say a lot of things about him but not infer that with these tweets.
Sometimes these answers make me believe they are created for bot brigades and astroturfing.
people just love controversy, even those who say they don't. Look at the many answers and engagement you can have comparing and talking about JS frameworks. Musk and apple is the same, makes a great ammount of engagement.
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It definetly has to do with screens and the virtuality of living. Is not just plain old nostalgia. I agree it's a paradox of choices and "individual liberty".
Obviously new generations won't notice, they probably won't complain yet or add nostalgia to their experiences, but there's a lot of thing that without effort there is no purpose in doing, and thus no joy in it. Remember when something cost you a lot of efforts? that was the real important thing, and when you achieved it or passed it, remember the joy you had? now with so many experiences, options and things within a hand's reach, theres no fun in doing anything, because it doesn't require your effort, and I think our brains weren't developed for an easy, overjoyed, overstimulated life.
