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I didn't know where else to go to say this...

But I'm so tired of social media. I'm sick of everyone looking so good. Why does no one have smile lines? Or acne scars? Or back fat? Or frizz? And why do the ones that do, feel the need to post about it looking for some kind badge of normalcy honor. When did we start chasing Photoshopped perfection and how did we get to this place where we have such unrealistic, unattainable expectations, of ourselves and of others? Why is it all about shopping and buying and enhancing and perfecting and why is it that we never seem to have or be enough?

Most of all, saddest of all, I just want to know: When did the measure of success go from "a life well-lived" to "a post well-liked"?

I know we can get off this train, but why can't we?

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I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.

Simon Van Booy

philosophybits

“Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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philosophybits

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”

— Frederick Douglass, “The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies (1857)”