Spending your time âproductivelyâ is a capitalist brainwashing tool. They already exploit you in your working hours, five days a week, all day. They came for our off hours with the advent of newer technologies. They came for our third spaces because they implied you were allowed to live your life outside of spending or producing capital. And theyâre here, already vying for your small sliver âyouâ time because that doesnât churn the gears of this life sucking system.
Fight the fucking system. Do goddamn nothing and enjoy it. Donât let them guilt you into thinking your life is wasted if youâre not âproducing.â Fuck them.
Doing nothing is fine. Spending the day scrolling is... feels bad.
I mean, I should have washed my towels because I ran out of clean towels last night but here we are at bedtime and it's not been done. That's got as close to nothing to do with capitalism as it gets but it's certainly got a lot to do with being productive and it's something I should have done today but didn't
My bed sheets are in the dryer still..
Thereâs obviously things you do for yourself to maintain your life, which are different than what I was talking about.
How many times has your least used towel(s) been used?
Working on my hobbies is fulfilling and makes me happy. If I like painting train models all weekend, who are you to argue against it? Doing nothing is boring and sad.
Jesus, whoâs are people possibly taking this to mean âdo nothing or else!â
Donât let the concept of productivity ruin your desire to relax. Iâm pretty sure I said your time is yours, donât let anyone tell you how to not spend it, especially this amorphous concept of âproductivity.â
Thereâs a pandemic of âproductivityâ and hustle culture, people are turning their entire lives into ways to make more money. Thatâs way more sad than doing nothing.
Having fulfilling hobbies to be âproductiveâ is good for your mental health, sure, but it also makes doing absolutely nothing that much more enjoyable.
Iâve come to the conclusion, for ME, that being productive is a mental health boost. However, Iâm with you in that I fully reject the notion that "productiveâ activities need to be tied to financial gain, your job, your career, your net worth, etc.
I absolutely get a return on investment on that time, but in non-financial ways. Iâm not sure how to put a price on mental & physical health, having close loving relationships, finding contentment and satisfaction with life, etc.
Like today, itâs the weekend and we donât have plans. I need to move some stuff around in the house and build some tables. But then my son wants to do stuff together all morning. Iâve learned that it is a much more worthwhile investment of my time to build my relationship with my son rather than brushing him off or even getting angry with him for wasting my time (something I expect from the conservative parts of the extended family).
There's a middle road to be met with this comment. You don't do productive things for capitalism you do it for your mental health. Also, being productive can mean many things most of which have nothing to do with feeding the machine.
There's a parable about this Taoist Master who's seen standing by a mountain view.
They ask the Master: are you meditating? And the Master says no, I'm just standing here.
They ask the Master: are you contemplating nature? And the Master says no, I'm just standing here.
They ask the Master: are you waiting for something? And the Master says no, I'm just standing here.
Sometimes it's okay to just stand there.
It's nice to sometimes let the world pass by instead of always trying to keep up
It'll still be there when you get done chilling.
"And thus, the students were enlightened"
Yes, okay, but I think that in this parable this master was, in the way that we would understand it, mediating. But in saying this trying to make a deeper point about how mediation is "just standing" (or sitting, or whatever) and not striving for a particular goal. The same principle is commonly expressed in zen and other related branches of Buddhism which absorbed some ideas from Taoism. That said it is totally 100% okay to just stand there, or to play video games or relax on the weekend. But I don't think it's quite the same as the master in this story was doing.
Yeah, what I like about those stories is that they're open-ended enough that you can interpret them in various ways. What you're saying is definitely a valid interpretation.
Thought I was in ADHD Memes.
Time feels so fake. Sometimes I'm sure an hour has passed and it's only been 15 minutes. Sometimes it feels like it's been about half an hour since I looked at a clock and four full human earth hours have passed.
I did both today. I'm really proud of myself.
Good work, I'm proud of you too
were you 420'd all day? because that's cheating
I'd be ok completely switching the demon/angel in this comic
The devil wears overalls.
fucking ouch
I feel personally attacked.
Just polish off this one more season of The Big Bang Theory and then you can figure out what to do about it.
Yesterday I did my taxes and then got high and had an existential crisis. Am I doing it right?
I always find the highs more pleasurable when I accomplish something for the day. Sorry you had a bad trip homie. Care to talk about it?
Yes, so productive
I allowed myself to get pulled into another rewatch of Ted Lasso and have been stuck in my feels since last night. Honestly? Worth it. I can emerge tomorrow to be an adult.
I wish me would stop judging me in this comic. stfu, me!
resumes sitting on counch doing nothing, occasionaly checking the miniature doom machine to scroll lemmy...
devil dude knows what's up
Guilty.
At least he shaved his Hitler mustache
The paradox of choice
