I reckoned that "Thou Shalt Isolate" would be first on the list, but isolation is often a result of all these other practices. Or are these practices an effect of isolation?
I brainstormed before writing and came up with 22 misery inducers. I decided to break that into 10 by discarding some, and isolation/lack of socializing was on the discard pile, though I've very briefly mentioned it in other articles. I'll undoubtedly return to it. Yes, many of these misery inducers will drive others away, or at least the good ones.
But my take is very much the Stoic take. Yes, we need socialization. Justice demands we serve people and be part of a community. But if you socialize with the wrong people they may very well degrade your character. It's something Seneca wrote about a lot, but your grandmother may have said the same, warning you away from "the bad crowd."
I would say it's isolation as a result of these other practices, and because of that I could definitely see isolation having its own article. I see numerous studies and stories about how we're all suffering from a "loneliness epidemic" and I would posit that's mainly because of the misery people have put themselves into by breaking your commandments here.
😂 hilarious and powerful.
Waiting on your next post about the other reasons I’m miserable is going to exasperate my misery…
muhahahah!!
Absolutely love this! Thank you.
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
👍👍👍🧨🔥✨
Thanks so much for your concise and detailed instructions to unavoidable personal doom ... !!!
Just perfect for the incurable, self-centred hypochondriacs and eternal professional whiners and self-entitled ones.
So Tolstoy was wrong about every happy family being alike and every unhappy family being unhappy in its own unique way?
I hope among your 22 misery inducers is, never think that there may be legitimate ways to look at any issue other than the way you look at it.
You know I've got a soft spot for skepticism, Doug. I think you'll like commandment #8 from next week's followup.
I reckoned that "Thou Shalt Isolate" would be first on the list, but isolation is often a result of all these other practices. Or are these practices an effect of isolation?
I brainstormed before writing and came up with 22 misery inducers. I decided to break that into 10 by discarding some, and isolation/lack of socializing was on the discard pile, though I've very briefly mentioned it in other articles. I'll undoubtedly return to it. Yes, many of these misery inducers will drive others away, or at least the good ones.
But my take is very much the Stoic take. Yes, we need socialization. Justice demands we serve people and be part of a community. But if you socialize with the wrong people they may very well degrade your character. It's something Seneca wrote about a lot, but your grandmother may have said the same, warning you away from "the bad crowd."
I would say it's isolation as a result of these other practices, and because of that I could definitely see isolation having its own article. I see numerous studies and stories about how we're all suffering from a "loneliness epidemic" and I would posit that's mainly because of the misery people have put themselves into by breaking your commandments here.
Reasonable argument.
Haha! This was a fun perspective, but with some really good insight!
Thanks!