There is nothing new under the sun, only periodic affirmation of ancient wisdom. Though an alarmingly increasing fraction of the civilized world's population lives to eat, I believe that life itself should be the universal objective for any and all lifestyles: Get a life; strive for more. But beware the Law of Unintended Consequences.
If you currently live to (eat, shop, gamble, watch tv, have sex, rob banks, pass the time, or whatever) I highly recommend that you interchange your current objective with its means (i.e., rob banks to live, though that might not be an optimum choice for success). Clearly, living is a prerequisite for all other animate activities, so it should be the preeminent, nay the only logical objective for any lifestyle. All other objective activities, commonly referred to as pastimes and work, are subordinate to their own prerequisite activity. And so it devolves that, logically, a sensible lifestyle can only be self-referencing. Self-annihilation, the lifestyle of choice in Holyshitwood, is not all it's cracked up to be for mere mortals.
Aside from the obvious advantage gained in extending the duration of one's pastimes, a self-referencing lifestyle can also be optimized with respect to enjoyment of a favored pastime. This can be established by a sequence of prerequisite activities, so long as one chooses more life as the ultimate prerequisite.
If you currently live to (eat, shop, gamble, watch tv, have sex, rob banks, pass the time, or whatever) I highly recommend that you interchange your current objective with its means (i.e., rob banks to live, though that might not be an optimum choice for success). Clearly, living is a prerequisite for all other animate activities, so it should be the preeminent, nay the only logical objective for any lifestyle. All other objective activities, commonly referred to as pastimes and work, are subordinate to their own prerequisite activity. And so it devolves that, logically, a sensible lifestyle can only be self-referencing. Self-annihilation, the lifestyle of choice in Holyshitwood, is not all it's cracked up to be for mere mortals.
Aside from the obvious advantage gained in extending the duration of one's pastimes, a self-referencing lifestyle can also be optimized with respect to enjoyment of a favored pastime. This can be established by a sequence of prerequisite activities, so long as one chooses more life as the ultimate prerequisite.
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