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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
This encapsulates everything that's wrong with liberalism and the desire for equality of outcome.
This story presumes that the Fisherman is already happy by working just a little, and fucking off the rest of his time.
I wouldn't call that happiness. I'd call that hell.
You certainly have a right to have your opinion, please just realize many people don't subscribe to it. Your argument in essence is that happiness can only be achieved through working and being successful. How I see it, is that those are absolutely not the end game, they're means to an end. I work in order to get money to do things I actually love doing, and the less I have to work to achieve that the better.
Originally Posted by BananaStand
Too much chaos in your life, and you're bound to be resentful, unhappy, and angry.
Too much order in your life and you're numb, stuck, stationary, and ignorant to the rest of what life has to offer.
Living...really *living*...means walking that line between order and chaos. That's where we get phrases like "straight and narrow path".
I have absolutely zero idea what you're talking about here. What are you talking about here?
Originally Posted by BananaStand
That's what the businessman is doing. He's living. The fisherman is all but dead. He's a zombie.
The businessman is spending all of his time with the end game of being able to do what the fisherman is already doing.
10 points for effort Banana! Next week we'll be discussing The Three Little Pigs, let's see if you can figure out the moral to the story in that.
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