The incentives are fucked

That’s an aweful lot of mores. I’d a settled for just one😜

That’s when you decide: Boundaries

Can you give more examples please?

Maybe there is no such thing as less is more but simply enough.

Easy to add, difficult to take away

More cheese 🧀

99.9% of paperwork is completely useless and an abject waste of time. Few things I detest more than bureaucracies and their made up nonsense.

I hate more meetings the most!

It's an evolution thing - both Darwinian, and spiritual, I'd wager. Example: the immediate physiological reward from sugar - we just discovered and consumed an intense and highly available form of energy. Good. But that used to require sticking one's hand into a beehive, or cutting a hole in a maple tree and waiting (etc.), and so we never evolved to process large sugar intake in a healthy way. Yet it's readily available, everywhere, always. The animal brain wants more. That's natural. The spiritual (call it what you will) evolution requires disintangling one's action from those desires (and fears), to instead move from a place of self/mindfulness/balance. We're all still in school 🧘‍♂️

I wonder if it’s not so much broken minds but misdirected minds. We must ask “more of what? Why?” But I think the goal-oriented mind is appropriate for living things (to live and expand life). What may be broken is the culture (another way of saying the instruction set society gives us).

They are not broken if you were able to detect those flaws

It’s beyond culture. We seek to fill empty space with stuff instead of being content with what we have. Fill empty moments, empty spaces, empty time, empty hands. We’re psychologically embedded with this. It takes active effort to notice it and act against it.

Open up a blank page in a notebook, look at it and observe your thoughts.

I don’t think the urge to strive/fill is a problem. You might call it the urge to live, actually. Living things are striving things. Humans are unique because to striving/living well is not automatic. Living poorly/wastefully … seems to be the default. Defaults I think are largely driven by culture, unless one bucks this trend and develops his own defaults. Current culture channels striving/living toward consuming/mindlessness/predictable behaviors that that benefit the “matrix”

Humans have a tendency to spend every moment thinking there are more moments to be had. Maybe it's just time itself that's broken, and we can't help but follow along 😉