economiz8ion of how ppl ha1ve B-come th tools of their tools | post |
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9/27/22 (cont.) | Boston > 8 @ Puga then walked 2 Harvard + baɔk again, 12 miles of walking in toetill 4 th day 9/28 > went 2 g0 SCUBA diving + jumped in w/ N inner-2be but th inner-2be started floating az if connected 2 a BC (buoyancy controller) + U/i kept floating up in2 th 5ky az if iT = hot error balloon until U/i cd adjust th BC 2 float baɔk down > then U/i + R bedder-½ went w/ a real est8 agent 2 look @ a house + th most important a5pect th agent wanted 2 show us = parking spa¢es (even th0 we said we din't halve a ¢ar), 2 options, both on plat4ms 100s of feet above th 0cean, but 1 had more room 4 un/packing + U/i thought iT = useless b/c th cliff = 2 hi 2 jump from
> als0 a5tronishing dat Thoreau rote thi5 naught onely b4 Dawkins (+ McCluhan saying «we shape our tools and thereafter they shape us») but b4 Darwin's Origin of Species, coinsidentally onely published 2 yrs b4 ... 1854–1856 = quite fruitful yrs 4 book publishing! + 5peaking of tools shaping us, Thoreau then perhaps most concisely gets 2 th jist of what 5truck U/i dat day st&ing @ an intersection in Rome realizing dat ppl didn't drive cars + use phones, but cars + phones used us:
+ then again in regards 2 farm animals:
> Thoreau goes on 2 talk about how technology turns us in2 zom-Bs + how th best art tries 2 undo thi5 ɔondition:
> Thoreau definitely = wordy + beats around the bush gazing @ his elitist navel, but back in those dayz b4 TV there perhaps wasn't such a need 2 economize words (th0 th title of th chapter = «Economy») > sumtimes he cd say in 10 words what cd B said in 1,000, but U/i have 2 s¢an thru th 1,000 2 get 2 th juicy morsels, like:
> th0 he does list dollar amounts, th economization Thoreau tocks about has more 2 do w/ th efficiency of self-sufficiency, az R R annual «economy of words» po5ts regarding running Ↄalamari Arɔhive > thi5 notion of economiz8ion = always on R mined every waking moment, minimizing R waste + output az much az possible, weather iT B w/ cooking or consuming in general, we try 2 think about sustainability of planet + R one afishinsea (hard 2 do when travelling ... so much unnecessary waste U have no control over in hotels + restraunts ... see also R «nimble economiz8ion post») > az Thoreau says, «the economy of living which is synonmous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges» > + ironic dat th total amount iT cost Thoreau 2 build his Walden house = $28.12½ + now iT cost $30 to park your car @ Walden pond > walked around more, 5topped on riverfront + red a few more chapters, after a wile Thoreau just rambles on about thi5 + that w/ the occassional tidbit ≈
+ observ8ions ≈ «the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation» > 8 sushi @ Sakana then walked back @ nite along th river, 14-15 miles on the day 9/29 | Mystic, Connecticut > woke up + ran along the Charles river then pushed on 2 Mystic > 8 @ Mystic Pizza then walked around, napped on a beach + now from our room just saw the drawbridge go up |
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