Life

This will be more of my normal inchoate babbling. But we're near the end of year one and the earliest moment of year two. So I figure it is time for the big guns.

I'd like us to imagine, model and construct better day to day lives for everyone. At least I imagine this is simply a thought experiment that is primarily based on prioritizing what you think matters to you. But what I'm really suggesting is a large scheme to produce a society, or a way of life that enables a person to find the style of day to day life that suits them and actually works to get them there.

So to start, I think one needs to get into their head what the texture of their day would be like. I personally want to be able to move casually about. That means I would like to be in multiple locations throughout the day and not in a rush between any of them. Lets say, an hour or so at each location doing something interesting or different. The point of this for me is both physical mobility and a change in the type of work or function I'm doing.

I'd also like ample time to cook and eat and to be around the people I enjoy.

This is certainly a leisurely scheme I have going, but I'm willing to make trades for it. Specifically in terms of money and the access to money. Maybe you don't need so much rest to feel okay. Maybe you want to be building all day in a workshop or running or driving or spending your day in a battle of wits with an entire world of people full of competing desires. You can want that. That is fine. And I want mine.

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And I want us to think about helping people find their ways into these spaces based on simply the interest to be in them. This could start as an activity for kids in grammar school. They could think about where they feel right and what they feel right doing. But the key is that you don't then send them down a path to reach the scholarly aptitude they'll need to succeed at that. Instead, it seems like we should focus on making the days like that as much as possible. Giving the days the chance to become other days that look like that. For as long as we all see fit.