Waxing philosophical for a bit
Jan. 10th, 2018 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scalyshoujoIt's often argued that without pain we wouldn't enjoy pleasure for long and would be eternally bored.
I would argue that two much pain causes stagnation just as easily as prolonged boredom does. There really does seem to be a big difference between having enough pain to cause conflict and having so much pain that you lock people in the trap of trauma and existential dread. It's the difference between a video game that is incredibly irritating when you first start it up but becomes fun as you spend time with it, and literally being Sisyphus rolling up a rock up and down a hill, going nowhere.
I would argue that two much pain causes stagnation just as easily as prolonged boredom does. There really does seem to be a big difference between having enough pain to cause conflict and having so much pain that you lock people in the trap of trauma and existential dread. It's the difference between a video game that is incredibly irritating when you first start it up but becomes fun as you spend time with it, and literally being Sisyphus rolling up a rock up and down a hill, going nowhere.