If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain … - Ian Bogost

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

Ian Bogost

If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.

Fun, Misery, Struggle, Talk, Thinking

Same Author Quotes

The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family. "

Born, Land, People, World

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

Experience, Misery, People, Sensation, Thinking

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

Exerting, Force, Forces, Subject, Thinking, World

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

Concerned, Particularly, Universe

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Attention, Enormous, Possible, Trying, Vast, Why Not