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Nag-hang naman yung lemm.ee kanina, kaya nag-lemmy.world ako. I hope everything is okay with the different lemmy instances.
I'll say it out loud. It has school shooter vibes. There, I said it. ~~Sayang since I kinda find that guy cute (and this better not awaken anything in me).~~ Anyways, I think the article is far better off if that picture wasn't there.
And we're not alone. A discussion in the talk page of the article has a user say this:
A different, and in my opinion, worse illustration featured in an older revision is discussed elsewhere.
IDK if it says something about the both of us, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If a child can dream of being a scientist someday, what's wrong with someone wanting to be a hermit someday? However, I think that society only tolerates it until some threshold (maybe puberty, 18y/o, or 21y/o). After that, it's seen as ‘childish’ (insert Le Petit Prince commentary here).
But yeah, I could argue that it's not really ‘demotivation’ (in the sense that it can be counted as anomie). Neither is my often fantasized ‘time stop’ superpower (fueled by my own remaining lifespan). In both of those, it's still “serving society”. In the hermit scenario, it's through the cultivation of wisdom, in which society reaps either through people visiting the hermit for wisdom, or the hermit's posthumous writings. In my scenario, it's through the assumption that I'm to re-engage in society eventually, recharged and better able to ‘do my duty.’
So, bale, I draw a distinction between ‘demotivation’ used in these two senses:
Damn, sorry for the wall of text. I admit I've gotten a bit fired up with this discussion.