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I don't understand the obsession with "fighting procrastination". It's like you have to be doing something always or else you've wasted time. There's no finish line here. You can't win.

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Go ahead and procrastinate, then don't feel guilty. Do nothing "useful" and enjoy it. Whoever/whatever it is that's making you feel like you have to do more, it's probably just abusive manipulation of labor forces.

We have most of the technology we need for a "Fully Automated Luxury Space Communes tm", and who's fault is it that we're all still working our ass off? Someone probably.. but now is the time for pointless, meandering, meta procrastination posts on some special corner of the internet.

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> Whoever/whatever it is that's making you feel like you have to do more, it's probably just abusive manipulation of labor forces.

That's not procrastination. Procrastination is having a final exam tomorrow, knowing you need to study, being perfectly able to study, have nothing else at all you need to do, wanting above all things to study, and yet somehow despite everything being aligned towards studying, not studying.

Maybe it's not the part of your life where you should be studying. If you don't really want to, it seems like your mind isn't going to make the positive associations with learning that information that it kind of needs to have in order to develop an actual vested interest and move the subject forward.

This world is full of people who market knowing stuff they don't care about and it might actually not be that great.

But you do really want to. It wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't a terrible, painful conflict between what you want to do and what you do.

I feel like maybe you're confusing what you want to do with what you think you should do. Or with what you want to want to do.

It's pretty normal, most people are pretty oblivious to what it is they really want. That's why we have corporate jobs, and cars, and empty relationships when really our favorite things in life are community and taking naps in the shade.

Procrastination is not about "always having something to do", it's about "not doing exactly one wants to get done".

Sometimes it's work related, sometimes it's hobbies, sometimes is chores. It's hard to e.g. "just enjoy" not paying a bill that's already due. To want to get that done it's hardly an obsession, and not being able to succeed in finishing such a simple task is really frustrating.

This kind of blackpilling gives left-wing ideologies a bad name.

From each according to his abilities, right?

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