{"id":14521,"date":"2015-10-21T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2015-10-21T22:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:20:45","slug":"notes-from-the-psychiatric-center-for-research-on-regressive-tendencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/notes-from-the-psychiatric-center-for-research-on-regressive-tendencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various odds and ends:<\/p>\n

Fillyjonk<\/a> linked to an old but not outdated story by Ray Bradbury, “The Murderer<\/a>.” I found a couple of other favorites, “The Veldt<\/a>” and “The Pedestrian<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Perhaps not entirely unrelated to the Bradbury stories:<\/a><\/p>\n

Having time each day merely to amuse oneself, or just to sit and think, greatly improves one\u2019s life. Yet we\u2019re practically taught to avoid such periods \u2013 to stay as busy as possible virtually all the time. The emphasis on work, on \u201cmultitasking\u201d (which, as a former expert in the architecture of multitasking operating systems for embedded devices, I can assure you is always an illusion) and on achieving ever more per unit time is using us up in ways we don\u2019t always perceive and even less often appreciate. You\u2019d almost suspect that time spent in introspection had been deemed an offense against the social norms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Via Dustbury<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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