today’s technologies of individualization are technologies of mass individualization
But being a person is only partly about having and exercising choices. It is also about how we face up to situations that are thrust upon us, about overcoming worthy challenges and finishing difficult tasks.
Convenience is all destination and no journey.
At some point, life’s defining struggle becomes the tyranny of tiny chores and petty decisions.
...if you want to be someone, you cannot allow convenience to be the value that transcends all others. Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution.
As if to mask the issue, we give other names to our inconvenient choices: We call them hobbies, avocations, callings, passions.
We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region®ion=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-region
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