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Since getting a job, life has moved unbearably slow. Not the pace overall, if anything I’ve been extremely hectic and busy, and now experience time in a completely different way (shoutout Postone on Newtonian time) - but moreso measured in terms of interesting thoughts.
I’m thinking all the time now, but it’s all just chatter and nonsense. In part, the problem is how packed things are. With more time, you have the energy, ability, and desire to discover the profundity in mundanity.
In college sometimes it felt like every day was an opportunity to grow and make new observations, but now my brain just feels dull and lifeless. I feel my most active and alive when at my most sedentary, and now that option has been stripped away from me.
cry more homo, you’re just dumb and have art school dropout energy with none of the creativity. you have no teleology except Labor, and should be grateful to be alienated from your species-being - it’s the only purpose you serve. you’re pathetic, whiny, and privileged. shut the fuck up.
But fr I kinda get it now why there’s so much dogshit philosophy, it’s excruciating to come up with a modicum of wisdom under modern conditions