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- 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
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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...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:20 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Can ethics be taught?
- Replies: 10
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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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Can ethics be taught?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1129
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...
- 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
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...
- 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
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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 ...
- 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
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...
- 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
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...
- 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
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...
- 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
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...
- 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
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’....