Yes, that’s not the point.

two things are similar so you don’t really have strong feelings either way.

Acceptance or rejection, no strong feelings either way.

Maybe that’s what they are saying? They impartially judged the application, without strong feelings. Ironically.

The candle was needed.

No finished project without some force that provided the focus to get it done.

How can any feeling of accomplishment fill the mind when there is the bad feeling of being forced?

Also biiiiiiiiiicycle

Knowledge can be a status symbol like clothing. People show what they know if they can signal their status with it.

In that form, knowledge is not verified by own thoughts. The value of the knowledge comes from the reputation of the source and the value of the people who agree with it.

So far, what do you think ADHD is?

That door is locked.

The cartoon is apt. It’s even worse. Pilots don’t fly without the approval of airline management.

The door to the cockpit is locked. If there has been a discussion or if there is just this vote, the powerlessness of those regular passengers shows that anti-intellectualism is an isolated problem. It only looks dangerous to those who don’t remember the locked door.

Can ADHD be almost the right way to handle undesired work?

If one doesn’t want to do work, it’s straight forward to not do it. If that isn’t allowed then doing everything else is the closest thing to avoiding that work. In that sense, ADHD is either a way of avoiding to be broken or the inability to integrate work into one’s accepted goals.

How could it be possible to accept work that one doesn’t want to do?

Just one article about the work conditions: https://africame.factsanddetails.com/article/entry-190.html

It could be that building the pyramids was not the regular job of the laborers. It was a communal experience like going to burnig man.

Society would be different if there would be one project that everybody builds together. It would be as unifying as a big war, without the disadvantages of a war.

It’s not the same because the president doesn’t represent society in a democracy in the same way.

For Egypt, the pharaoh was the thing that made Egypt. Kind o like the Dalai Lama or Jesus, the pharaoh was the son of horus, the incarnation of the principle of ruling. I am not an expert but I would say that the pyramid was built for that principle and not the person itself, whereas Trump has a Trump tower to make himself known.

If it isn’t Trump but e.g. Taylor Swift, I could imagine fans to build something for her, e.g. her next stage set, if she offers to provide food and housing.

For democracy though, society should build something that doesn’t celebrate one person but the community. E.g. China has a day when every citizen plants a tree. When you see the effect after some years, you can feel the transforming power of the community.

People would have time to debate political issues. Their job wouldn’t take the biggest part of their life so they wouldn’t link their identity with their job. Social customs would change so that the people who should work 40 hours for the benefit of all prefer other jobs. Scarcity of applicants would also shift the power towards the employees for wage negotiations.

It’s possible and could improve society massively, but too risky for the current business owners to implement on their own.

Pyramids were most likely not built by slaves. They were communal projects.

We need something like the pyramids today. Communal projects that show the strength of the community.

The names were first. The locations are named after names.

Even America was a name first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

Like always, google is doing things for free to get training data.

All things are going into an authoritarian direction which needs control of the opposition. Google will have the infrastructure to identify people with opposing mindsets. There won’t be a rebellion if the rebel leaders can be locked up in time.

It seems like you escape your inner conflicts by being industrious.

Not professional advice but instead of going, you could halt posting for a moment and focus on your breathing. It will assure you that you are safe, and you can let the conflicts become a bit more aware without feeling overwhelmed by the terror. Do this for some time and you create the space to transform your conflicts.

Totally. Only that I postponed the thing I had to do for even longer.

Your post made me realize that I postpone because I am afraid of hyperfixating. When I hyperfixate I do things that I don’t want to be do, but that have to be done to make them right.

Like I expected, when I finally did what I had to do, I found something that was not right, and spent some additional time on it without being able to let go.

Here is an older thought about it: Could it be that ADHD is an identity thing? Essentially like transsexual but for being and not sex. Hyperfocussing is like wearing a mask, not out of fear of social reactions but from the inability of maintaining my identity. I lost my day by being afraid of experiencing being-dysphoria. It only ends when the fear of the consequences of inaction are bigger than the fears of dysphoria.