The Urge To Learn Everything, But Do Nothing. Productive Laziness Right?

the urge to learn everything, but do nothing. productive laziness right?

've just seized a privilege of watching Dead Poet's Society for the very first time... Now I'm sitting here in darkness, hoping classical music can enhance this ravishing experience and heal my dreadfully broken heart and bleeding soul all at the same time

Worse, thanks to what is called “shifting baseline syndrome,” changes that initially seem extreme come to be accepted as normal over time. The next generation of children, who will never remember how many birds (or butterflies or hedgehogs or manatees) once existed in the wild, will not hear anything eerie in the silence. Once a mass murder is complete, its victims tell no tales. When humans killed the last of the giant “Steller sea cows” several hundred years ago, the memory of these mega-manatees faded away quickly, and now they seem like something fantastical. We know that “in just over 100 years the world lost as much forest as it had in the previous 9,000 years,” but when nobody is left alive who remembers the old forests, the loss is not felt.

Nathan J. Robinson, Obliterating the Natural World

  ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[text ID: I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be.]

Not to sound Romantic or anything, but I too have a striking fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque.