Why do anything? The Pocket University 18 May 2023
You're going to die. And nature is sweet to watch and sit in. And the water flows. And the planet turns. And leaves and blooms just leaf and bloom. Why do we need to push so hard ... ?
You encounter the lotus-eaters back in Homer’s Odyssey.1
They eat, eat, eat the leaves of the lotus tree, and they don’t care about anything else. They’re happy. Stupid, dull, useless, but blissful.
In a “land where all things always seem’d the same!” sit the “mild-eyed mel…
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