“The truth is that many of the qualities we admire in human beings can only function in opposition to some kind of disaster, pain, or difficulty; but the tendency of mechanical progress is to eliminate disaster, pain, and difficulty” 

—George “Fuck Technology” Orwell

What’s your gut reaction?

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I don’t think pain always brings the best out of people, especially at an individual level, but disaster and difficulty most of the time bring resiliency. The qualities I thought of when reading this were definitely on the soft side: compassion, resilience, emotional intelligence, etc 1/2

So I guess that what he says only applies if we are thinking of eliminating physical pain and difficulty. I was literally thinking in natural disasters as I was reading this lol not sure why (and those ones we can’t control yet) 2/2