不要因为选择而忘记生活！

16/5/6

Our unhealthy obsession with choice

When making your choice in life, do not forget to live！－－Samuel Johnson

不知道是不是理科思维的原因，对演讲中几个例子的支持作用表示不解，开头结尾还是容易抓住的，但是也没有给出明确的做法。

每个人每时每刻都在做出选择，对于选择的紧张感是缘于不确定性自身也具有不确定性。
怎么解决因选择而产生的焦虑和愧疚呢，不要只在乎个人选择，多关注一下集体选择。
个人选择比较好理解，那集体选择指的是什么？

引用的第一句话还是很有启发意义的，
不要因为选择而忘记生活！

选择也要生活

学习句子

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Quote:

1.Samuel Johnson

When making your choice in life, do not forget to live.

2.Aeschylus

Happiness is a choice that requires effort

3.Groucho Marx

I wouldn’t want to choose to belong to any club that would have me as a member.

The sweet anxiety choice

Choice together with freedom, and the idea of self-making, has been elevated to an idea.

We believe the endless progress.

But the underside of this ideology, has been an increase of anxiety, feelings of guilt, feeling of being inadequate.
This ideology is very efficient in pacifying us as political and social thinkers.

Instead of social critiques, we are more and more becoming self-critics,
sometimes to the point of self-destruction.

Why is it still so powerful even among people who don’t have too many choices.

Manya’s customers will buy another car the next day, because she makes them feel the car they are buying today would be perfect now, but when the children grow up, another car would be the ideal one.

Her success is that she was able to open in their heads an image of an idealized future.

We try to convince ourselves that we made the right choice.

Choices are linked to risks, losses, they are unpredictable.

Anxiety is linked to the possibility of possibility.

We use prediction of future earnings even thought it’s affected by the changing market, we still think we can predict it rationally.

Psychonanalyst know very well that people surprisingly don’t have passion for knowledge, but have passion for ignorance.

Before we do any social critique,

Why do we think that we are really such masters of our lives that we can rationally make the best choices, that we don’t accept losses and risks?

The poor people who don’t think the rich people taxed more,

Maybe they don’t think that they will make it,
in the future, my son will be the next Bill Gates.

and who would tax one’s son. 2333

Margaret Thatcher famously said that there is nothing like a society,
society doesn’t exist, there is only families and individuals.

The anxious that we are not good enough, that’s why we work hard and equally long hours on remarking ourselves.

When we are anxious about choices, we easily give our power of choice away.

What did you learn from choices?
When thinking about choices, I stopped taking choices too seriously, personally.

We should go beyond thinking about individual choices, it’s better to think about social choices.
We spend so much time choosing things for ourselves and barely reflect on communal choices we can make.

We should not ignore the choice is always linked to change.
We can make individual changes, but we can make social changes.
We can choose to change our environment to have more bees.
We can choose to control corporations instead of allowing corporations to control us.

We have possibility to make changes.

Finally, you can see, I did have a choice in what kind of society where we can live.