Today my work day is identical to yesterday’s. The meetings that were supposed to happen got rescheduled, so is this really a different day? It’s like the Ship of Theseus problem expressed in time - as each day gets replicated plank by plank, meeting by meeting, dog walk by dog walk isn’t it really just the same day?
I feel I’m in a losing battle with entropy - then again, in the big picture entropy conquers us all. In Phillip K Dick’s “Do Androids Dream if Electric Sheep,” (and not in the film adaptation Bladerunner),he introduces the concept of “kipple.” Kipple is the clutter and debris that seems to spontaneously generate and accumulate in abandoned spaces. It self replicates. Case in point, we receive a package from amazon, later that day there are several empty boxes and packaging materials all over the living room. I carry it all out to the trash, only to later find a empty box from Trader Joe’s in the kitchen. I go to bed and in the morning there’s a fresh pile of boxes in the living room plus the box in the kitchen. Philip K. Dick was on to something - and you should read the book if you haven’t. And it’s not just the boxes, it’s dishes and glassware, dirty laundry - everyday the kipple advances.
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