May 12th, 2010
…distraction is nothing new. Over a century ago, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described his harassed peers. “One thinks with a watch in one’s hand,” he wrote in 1887, “even as one eats one’s midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market”. Yet Nietzsche didn’t blame clocks or markets. “We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life,” he wrote in his Untimely Meditations, “because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in “The Distraction Society,” posted by Fascinated. Apropos of this.
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Aporia is written by Mills Baker and concerns art, culture, love, philosophy, memory, history, and more. A selection of better posts has been assembled. It's been featured on Tumblr Tuesday and is listed in the Spotlight, but it pines for its youth as a coloring book.