Interview #5 –
Money. Love. Power. Prestige. These are all viewed as rather legitimate pursuits in the professional realm, wouldn’t you say?
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Precisely. There are certain ends in our careers. By X time I want to have Y things. It’s the same old story. This manifests in wealth, love, etc. etc., those lofty ideals you hear about exclusively from your grandfathers and old movies. I myself have pursued these matters, and well, was successful in such pursuits.
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My quandary is this: why should the objective never be Fun? What is wrong with the pursuit of Fun. Not enjoyment or pleasure, no no, those things can be manifested by means of money or romance. One never hears Fun as a high ideal, does one? Never in my 50 years in the workforce have I heard Fun be used as one’s purpose for living, their raison d’être. I am talking about fun for fun sake. Why so often is Fun discounted as the working man’s objective?
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Do you mind if I smoke?
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Sure, the system requires people to work for the sake of working. Classic economic principle. Wealth guarantees safety, and safety guarantees satisfaction. I just ponder: why Fun is so often regarded as frivolous. immature. Juvenile.
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Fun is a significant apparatus on how we approach our days. Distinguished gentlemen like myself tend to glaze over the reality of Fun. Golfing and Boating have an air of prestige to them, but a reductionist approach would reduce these activities simply to fun. Hell, hobbies are simply routine fun, but no one gaufs at being passionate about a hobby.
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I think, traditionally speaking, fun has a childlike connotation. It is the brevity of the word. Honor, wealth, passion all sound lofty when leaving the lips. Verbally, fun has no weight.
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Perhaps, as a child, it is one of the first emotions of experiences that comes from one being. The act of having fun is a legitimate pursuit. It is the first act of agency as a child to have fun, to play. Indeed, the creation of fun is the only thing a child can in fact control. A child is faced with confusion, what is going on in my life, what are these sounds I do not understand that my parents are speaking to me, why do some things hurt when I touch them? Fun is understood. I am playing and it brings me pleasure, it brings me control. Fun makes sense in a world where nothing else makes sense. In fact, fun may be the first pursuit in a human’s life that is not strictly biological.
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And maybe that is why not enough working professionals or high thinkers believe fun is a legitimate pursuit of man. Because it is the first end one experiences it is regarded as a trivial end, too fundamental, too simple to be thought of as more.
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I believe so. And I believe a lot of people like me think there are higher ideals out there. But the most basic things in life have great layers of complexity. And that should not be overlooked so easily.
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