I grew up soaking in that attitude, and I know I've internalized it a great deal. I'm working on recognizing it, but I still catch myself thinking that way all too often.

I'm reading Why Be Jewish? by Edgar Bronfman, and he takes a different view. Complaint is a Jewish pastime, he says, with biblical roots, and he points out that it's both natural and necessary: "...complaint arises from a sense of deep dissatisfaction. Without complaint, there is no criticism, there is no vision of the way things can be. Complaint is the beginning of the vision of a better world. It rejects complacency and it rejects the status quo."

I wanna build a fort in the woods and play using sticks as swords

we are taugh that we’re meant to spend our adult lives generating capital and recovering from generating capital and then doing it again

play is one of the most creative things a human can do and we’re not meant to stop playing when we get big, our storylines are just supposed to get in-depth

Um............. ????? EXCUSE ME???? IT JUST??? SITS??? THERE??? ON THE FLOOR??? NO TANK??? WHAT IS GOING ON. DOES HE NEED A LEASH? A.... PET BED? HE HAS NO HOME THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. I AM NOT SHARING MY BED WITH HIM. WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS THING

UPDATE: IT HISSES WHEN YOU GO UP TO IT AND CLICK "A" AND YOU CAN MOVE IT AROUND LIKE FURNITURE. THIS IS NOT NATURAL. I DONT LIKE THIS

ANOTHER UPDATE: YOU CAN SET HIM ON TOP OF THINGS???

Just incredible.