#surrogate activities

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Shannon Thrace on Substack

I'm starting to believe that activism is a performative substitute for rising to the difficult, mundane, everyday acts that garner no attent

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6. Surrogate Activities: The more we eliminate struggles from our lives, the more we create artificial struggles – sports, video games, Twitter culture wars – because the mind wants peace, but needs conflict.” 7. Shirky Principle To ensure survival, institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. E.g. Arms manufacturers lobby politicians to push for new wars, and light bulb manufacturers deliberately make their bulbs short-lived so you buy them more often.

A list of “useful concepts” this guy learned in 2022. I complain about Surrogate Activities ALL THE TIME.