Ahh..last final in 3 hours

[shuffleburry]

A short article any self-respecting modern person should read. It succinctly gets at a fundamental problem in modern society. Namely, the need to be constantly stimulated, as inpleading post I made a few weeks ago for less lights.

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[jescasewer]

This reminds me of Kentucky Kingdom.

[riskquette]

I think it's very interesting to see this article juxtaposed with certain passages of Stoicism (the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius, in particular) that dogmatize similar subject matter:

12. Our mental powers should enable us to perceive the swiftness with which all things vanish away: their bodies in the world of space, and their remembrance in the world of time. We should also observe the nature of all objects of sense - particularly such as allure us with pleasure, or affright us with pain, or are clamorously urged upon us by the voice of self-conceit - the cheapness and contemptibility of them, how sordid they are, and how quickly fading and dead...We should apprehend, too, the nature of death; and that if only if be steadily contemplated, and the fancies we associate with it be mentally dissected, it will soon come to be thought of as no more than a process of nature (and only children are scared by a natural process) - or rather, something more than a mere process, a positive contribution to nature's well-being. Also we