RE: LeoThread 2025-09-22 18:20

[timoard]

The sickness of this era is surface living. People are like a river a mile wide and an inch deep.
It's often said that if the aim is to become a billionaire, invent something that lets people indulge their own Resistance.

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[timoard]

Someone did: the Internet — social media.
That wonderland lets users flit from one shallow, self‑gratifying distraction to another, always staying on the surface, never deeper than an inch.

[timoard]

Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite: diving deep into one thing—the book under way, the album, the film—and staying there for a very, very long time.