Very interesting and as a father of 5 still fairly small very helpful.
Your final point about how you view the children is something that I believe very much. I can't understand people who have children just to send them away all the time. What's the point if you aren't going to spend time with them?
Very interesting and as a father of 5 still fairly small very helpful.
Your final point about how you view the children is something that I believe very much. I can't understand people who have children just to send them away all the time. What's the point if you aren't going to spend time with them?
I think the 'idle' time is very significant and hard to obtain without a more radical break with society than we have made to date. I believe it was your countryman S. Kierkegaard(I think you said Dane but my memory is imperfect and my phone a limited tool for checking references) who said that the best cure for the modern world was to 'create silence',, without silence, and pause, and idleness our capacity for action is progressively eliminated.
I'm Swedish but I live in Denmark, so I know my Kierkegaard. I find silence to by very important. I lived for almost five years without internet in my mid-twenties, which was formative. And I still need to unplug for a few months now and then to process what I'm going through. Otherwise I drift. To me it feels like interacting with the world is about building potential energy; silence releases it.
I used to be almost completely unplugged but then I got very sucked in and haven't been able to get out. Anyway, just found your substack and really like it so far.
Very interesting and as a father of 5 still fairly small very helpful.
Your final point about how you view the children is something that I believe very much. I can't understand people who have children just to send them away all the time. What's the point if you aren't going to spend time with them?
I think the 'idle' time is very significant and hard to obtain without a more radical break with society than we have made to date. I believe it was your countryman S. Kierkegaard(I think you said Dane but my memory is imperfect and my phone a limited tool for checking references) who said that the best cure for the modern world was to 'create silence',, without silence, and pause, and idleness our capacity for action is progressively eliminated.
Five is a bunch, man.
I'm Swedish but I live in Denmark, so I know my Kierkegaard. I find silence to by very important. I lived for almost five years without internet in my mid-twenties, which was formative. And I still need to unplug for a few months now and then to process what I'm going through. Otherwise I drift. To me it feels like interacting with the world is about building potential energy; silence releases it.
I used to be almost completely unplugged but then I got very sucked in and haven't been able to get out. Anyway, just found your substack and really like it so far.