Work can actually be kind of awful. And it's truly useful to practice the Fake Smile. It's good to pretend, I suppose when no other solution is going to happen anyway.

Very over worked today. For example supposed to check blood sugar before meals but too much work and they brought the trays early so some were checked during and after dinner. I spent hours just constantly moving. Eventually one forgets things. It just can't be helped. I had too many patients. And it's awful. Because this is life and death. This is a hospital. Some of these people are quite sick. One guy's intestine today was poking out through his colostomy hole. It reminded me of an uncircumsized penis.

Another guy was screaming bloody murder because his lithium levels were out of whack and they had him restrained. At the beginning of the day his screaming and threats made me feel a bit anxious. By the end of the day, it felt like the perfect background for the environment I was in.

The Fake Smile is the solution. Pass these women in the halls and flash that smile! Everything's juuuussst grrrrreat!
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I'm dubious about people who work in university philosophy departments. Philosophy is a failure. So far. Like economics, ultimately I think. Economics is only allowed as long as it's supporting capitalism, more or less. That's what gets funded for the most part. Along the same lines philosophy that actually managed to start proving that the actions of the status quo were wrong... well we can't have that.

So, I don't know. To agree to be a part of all that, it seems could be a sort of conforming to a number of actions which aren't leading to the greatest possible good. OTOH, many philosophers consider themselves socialists and communists, etc.
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...it seems to me the honest and unconformed thing to do would be to take stuff from your actual life and apply whatever philsophy you believe to it. I'm seeing a bunch of people who keep it fake instead. Who conform. Who aren't real. Who show no meaningful applications. Who are mired in defining words....

Zizek says philosophy isn't to answer questions but to pose better questions.

...which just means posing questions that can actually be answered and he isn't accomplishing that. Instead he's calling vegetarians degenerates. :eyeroll: