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by Robert Tulip
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:06 am
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
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Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

Mark Manson implicitly compares his philosophy to the famous book by M Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled , saying “like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.” (p12). This leads to a sort of impeccable warrior accomplishment discipline, able to focus and priorit...
by Robert Tulip
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:20 am
Forum: Religion & Philosophy
Topic: Can ethics be taught?
Replies: 10
Views: 1129
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Re: Can ethics be taught?

This conversation is very relevant to the current Booktalk non-fiction selection, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, which is quite an entertaining and easy short read. Theirs was a much more violent age, with Marius and Sulla taking the pernicious problem of "faction" (as the Federalist...
by Robert Tulip
Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: Religion & Philosophy
Topic: Can ethics be taught?
Replies: 10
Views: 1129
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Re: Can ethics be taught?

Hi Harry, thanks for these interesting questions. I think of US politics as resembling the slide in Ancient Rome from Republic to Empire. If the US situation at the time of the Second World War equates to the high point of Roman republican ethics around the Punic Wars in 200BC, and the time scale an...
by Robert Tulip
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
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Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

Mark Manson’s analysis of how to be happy asserts that “the desire for more positive experiences is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.” (p9) To support this paradox, he cites the philosopher Alan Watts - http...
by Robert Tulip
Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
Australia

Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

In “The Feedback Loop From Hell”, TSAONGAF explains that people are way too susceptible to the influence of our imagination about how happy other people are. People tend to think others are less anxious, angry, emotional, neurotic and sad than themselves. This is partly due to the influence of mass ...
by Robert Tulip
Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
Australia

Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

Yes at first it seems Sagan focuses on our infinitesimal place in the infinite space of perhaps multi-trillions of galaxies. But he also examines the history of human activities in the context of deep time and concludes it is ALL up to us, there is no one coming to save us from our own potential de...
by Robert Tulip
Fri Feb 16, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
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Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

I hadn't heard the phrase sub specie aeternitatus before, but I think that's what Carl Sagan called "the cosmic perspective" and wrote about in The Pale Blue Dot . Actually Sagan's perspective is rather different. Pale Blue Dot is about spatial extent, showing how tiny our planet is on co...
by Robert Tulip
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
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Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

I doubt I would have picked up on the Buddhist element given the "Right Speech" step on the Noble Eightfold Path. 🤣 I'll start looking for more now... The occasional profanity in this book should be read as euphemistic, as a way of saying that we should detach from things that are unimpor...
by Robert Tulip
Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:55 am
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
Australia

Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

Manson attacks consumerism, observing that people wanting more stuff is good for business, but is bad for mental health, causing attachment to the superficial and fake (p5). This is an important observation of the delusional corruption of values that pervades mass culture. It is superficial to think...
by Robert Tulip
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - by Mark Manson
Topic: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try
Replies: 18
Views: 4176
Australia

Re: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Ch. 1: Don’t Try

Coming back for a second comment. Too often, “counterintuitive”, the word in the subtitle of this book, is a euphemism for wrong and stupid. That certainly seems the case with the ill-conceived opening example, the bum author Charles Bukowski, with his Yodaesqe epitaph on his gravestone ‘Don’t Try’....

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