r/Foodforthought • u/Melissadoes • 9d ago

Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be "the limit of human felicity." A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe.

https://ordinaryabundance.com/
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u/kobayashi_maru_fail 9d ago

Today’s version:

“A felicitousness: home, un-shadowed by prying ears and eyes, no invisible taste-makers’ insertions in our tongues and fingertips. Neither Roblox nor Prime Day. Dripless and unironic. Unbounded attention spans, human minds seeking musical and artistic achievement, social connection, maybe even some fucking semicolons.”

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u/Melissadoes 9d ago

That's very bleak.

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u/kobayashi_maru_fail 9d ago

Boredom and creativity are siblings. I’m not trying to get all rose-tinted about people who had to draw by whale oil lantern light or compose around that one busted key on their clavichord or the much worse state of the many people who didn’t have lanterns or clavichords, but you have to wonder if they’d see how we live as utopian or dystopian. I think Wall-E got it right.

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u/thataintapipe 8d ago

What’s this from 

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u/kobayashi_maru_fail 8d ago

Not a quote, just a thought.

I like your Magritte user name.

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u/thataintapipe 8d ago

Nice. It’s good! And harrowing