Sunday, July 27, 2025

 


Fifth Day of Light, 63rd Day of Summer, 525 M.E. (Electra): The pursuit of leisure, instead of being closely integrated with work in a holistic and balanced lifestyle, is increasingly becoming a desperate escape from work, which is experienced as meaningless. But leisure itself has become a packaged, meaningless mass enterprise with values provided by the entertainment industry, thus leaving the individual at the mercy of mass-produced diversions and impersonal communication, such as the algorithm-based products provided by social media.

Perhaps we should work to destroy the system of values that ultimately leads to meaningless leisure.

On another note, my AC is still hanging on, if only by a thread, shutting off and turning back on all day. I believe the culprit is a floating shut-off switch somewhere in a clogged condensate drain line. As the day progresses and the line backs up with condensed water, the switch shuts the AC off. Then, when cool air is no longer forming condensate, the water drains back down and switches the unit back on again. The line needs to be cleared out with compressed air. The technician arrives tomorrow and I've told the company of my theory and advised them to bring a cylinder of compressed air to blow out the line. I just hope the congestion doesn't get thick enough in the next 24 hours or so so that the water can't drain at all and turn the float switch back on.

But meanwhile, yeah, let's destroy the society that devalues work and mass produces leisure as just another consumer commodity.

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