🍃 Branches (key topics): convience culture is killing our creative impulses, Howard (2025)
🍂 Roots (Status): #seed

Notes

• Central question: What do we lose when we give in to convenience?
• Also goes along with NPR's the body electric episode on the rise of a vacuum
• What is the etymology of convenience? What is a convenience store? When did those start being parts of society?
• Feels like it could be a larger project... maybe even a nonfiction book or a dissertation
  
• Ayan Artan writes in his essay in defense of pretension. about how focused we've become on convenience, where seeking hard things (reading the classics, consuming media) is being portrayed as elitist. Intellectualism = elitism.
  • He gets into the central question of— what are we giving up when we use a new convenience?
    • "People used to be lead by their moral compass; now, it is our algorithms that lead us" (Artan, 2025).
    • "convenience. how much it has stolen from us. we don't just want more than we ever have, not only do we consume mindlessly like never before but now we want everything to be easy" (Artan, 2025).
    • In some cases, working for something is what makes it meaningful.