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    <title>Lethargy &amp;mdash; rethink</title>
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    <description>Can we manage the Turn or fail miserably?</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:25:48 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>The pervision of intentions (6)</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[If you are offered a free candy, which you don&#39;t like, are you doing what? Spit it out and accept no more or bravely suck it to the end and reach for another one? Can I take the first one? Fine.&#xA;&#xA;If you are the owner of a business, there are sometimes a few helpful hints that can&#39;t be dismissed. But you would probably resist massive interference or even regulation, wouldn&#39;t you? As long as you act legal, you want to run your business the way you want, right? Fine.&#xA;&#xA;Basically, nobody can force anyone to do something against their will, because we don&#39;t live in a dictatorship – at least not yet. Are we compliant so far? Fine.&#xA;&#xA;Then why do you, as a user, lament and moan about the business practices of others and even call for policy to be regulated from there? Nobody&#39;s forcing you to eat the disgusting candy. Established and at least equivalent alternatives already exist. But then you come up with flimsy excuses to justify your addiction and inability to change. Most popular is the argument of missing mass elsewhere. Which makes you a dim-witted addict for whom even irrational reasons are not cheap enough. Awkward. Kinky.&#xA;&#xA;If you waste your energy with stupid jabbering and not invest it in a change, no mass can be built elsewhere. The current top dogs were also boring and empty in their beginnings. So stop complaining about data collection and other unpleasant side effects, but reorient yourself. Right now! That&#39; all!&#xA;&#xA;#Dependent #Fools #Lethargy #Privacy #Unable&#xA;&#xA;(Deutsche Version)&#xA;&#xA;small{Translated with the help of a href=&#34;https://www.deepl.com/translator&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;Deepl/a}/small]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are offered a free candy, which you don&#39;t like, are you doing what? Spit it out and accept no more or bravely suck it to the end and reach for another one? Can I take the first one? Fine.</p>

<p>If you are the owner of a business, there are sometimes a few helpful hints that can&#39;t be dismissed. But you would probably resist massive interference or even regulation, wouldn&#39;t you? As long as you act legal, you want to run your business the way you want, right? Fine.</p>

<p>Basically, nobody can force anyone to do something against their will, because we don&#39;t live in a dictatorship – at least not yet. Are we compliant so far? Fine.</p>

<p>Then why do you, as a user, lament and moan about the business practices of others and even call for policy to be regulated from there? Nobody&#39;s forcing you to eat the disgusting candy. Established and at least equivalent alternatives already exist. But then you come up with flimsy excuses to justify your addiction and inability to change. Most popular is the argument of missing mass elsewhere. Which makes you a dim-witted addict for whom even irrational reasons are not cheap enough. Awkward. Kinky.</p>

<p>If you waste your energy with stupid jabbering and not invest it in a change, no mass can be built elsewhere. The current top dogs were also boring and empty in their beginnings. So stop complaining about data collection and other unpleasant side effects, but reorient yourself. Right now! That&#39; all!</p>

<p><a href="/rethink/tag:Dependent" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Dependent</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Fools" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Fools</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Lethargy" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Lethargy</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Privacy" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Privacy</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Unable" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Unable</span></a></p>

<p><a href="https://qua.name/umdenken/die-perversion-von-absichten-6" rel="nofollow">(Deutsche Version)</a></p>

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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:50:16 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Wrong values</title>
      <link>https://qua.name/rethink/wrong-values</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[With all the intelligence and the arrogance we have annexed with it, have we managed so far to define human value through work?&#xA;&#xA;And because we cannot (want to) solve the self-created, smouldering conflicts in ourselves - for this we would have to acknowledge them - do we hold others responsible for them?&#xA;&#xA;How pathetic. How pathetic. How narrow-minded.&#xA;&#xA;Pant precious stupidly after the money, you don&#39;t understand range of humankind anyway.&#xA;&#xA;#Dull #Society #Lethargy #Slave]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all the intelligence and the arrogance we have annexed with it, have we managed so far to define human value through work?</p>

<p>And because we cannot (want to) solve the self-created, smouldering conflicts in ourselves – for this we would have to acknowledge them – do we hold others responsible for them?</p>

<p>How pathetic. How pathetic. How narrow-minded.</p>

<p>Pant precious stupidly after the money, you don&#39;t understand range of humankind anyway.</p>

<p><a href="/rethink/tag:Dull" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Dull</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Society" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Society</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Lethargy" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Lethargy</span></a> <a href="/rethink/tag:Slave" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Slave</span></a></p>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:40:12 +0100</pubDate>
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