[HN Gopher] If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying At...
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       If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
        
       Author : passwordoops
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2024-08-25 13:59 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Humanity's greatest skill is ignoring the beauty that surrounds
       | us.
        
         | illuminant wrote:
         | And secondly self deception!
        
           | Terr_ wrote:
           | "Our _three_ greatest skills are ignoring the beauty that
           | surrounds us, self-deception, and an almost fanatical
           | dedication to the pope. "
        
           | copperx wrote:
           | Self deception is our #1 skill. That's why we couldn't
           | progress before science. It's also what makes us see beauty
           | when there's none.
        
       | brudgers wrote:
       | _Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention_
       | 
       | Modulo the attention that leads to enchantment is a privilege.
       | When a person's world is full of actual danger, bending down to
       | smell the flowers can be a fatal vulnerability.
       | 
       | Or to put it another way, lack of enchantment is not a moral
       | failing any more than disenchantment is a virtue. Other people's
       | circumstances are not what bliss-ninnies project upon them any
       | more than they are the projections of cynics, conspiracy
       | theorists and paranoids.
        
         | UniverseHacker wrote:
         | I'm not sure privilege is the right way to think about this-
         | but chronic stress definitely shifts the world to being
         | unenchanted. I remember living in an enchanted world as a kid,
         | and it can return with something as simple as a breathing
         | exercise, meditation, or sitting in a forest hot spring.
        
       | egypturnash wrote:
       | The lady squatting in the abandoned house next to my place seems
       | to be talking to, yelling at, and/or stalked by things I can't
       | see on a _pretty regular basis_ , and I'm pretty sure she lives
       | in a _much_ more enchanted world than I do, but it definitely
       | doesn 't sound like the fun kind of enchantment.
        
       | koollman wrote:
       | Are curses part of the enchantments ? I think I noticed those
        
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