It is so much easier for me to choose the tool over the craft, the product over the design, consumption over creation. In every avenue of interest, passivity insinuates itself, to the detriment of anything I might do to distinguish my individuality or give of myself to others. I am not the personification of decadence, but sloth. Simplicity is beautiful, being a simpleton is vulgar.
How to arm myself?
Travel, cultivate my existing friendships, eliminate television, pursue music which triumphs discipline, virtuosity, communication, and improvisation (jazz, flamenco, etc), slow down, absorb what I read not to accumulate trivia but to develop as a reader, writer, and person…
