“30 years on a treadmill and got nowhere” definitely has a negative connotation.
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skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 days agoYou’re the one that made an assumption. I said nothing about whether I thought they were happy, but you couldn’t resist the opportunity to get sanctimonious.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s negative, yeah, but that’s not the same thing either. I can’t believe I’m having to defend the position that not changing at all in 30 years could be seen as anything less than ideal. Did I touch a nerve or something?
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m not the one who responded, just saying it’s pretty easy for someone to get the impression that you think someone stuck on a depressing treadmill might be sad.
It’s not the huge leap you seem to think it is from what you said.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Then let me take a crack at it. You are subtly moralizing against their lives as going ‘nowhere,’ suggesting that there is a ‘somewhere’ to go, that would be better than having remained. The reality is you are also on the treadmill, and cannot leave it. You have run faster than it has turned under you, and feel like moving closer to the front of the belt has given your life meaning, just as they have continued to run with their family and friends in a familiar constellation around them and taken meaning from that, but your fate, just like theirs, is to fall and be thrown off the back of the treadmill with everyone else.