People tend to be motivated to train harder if they have a goal.

For youths, that’s sports and competition. In martial arts, it’s who can kill more efficiently while still leaving a peaceful life in civilization.

I think anything in human affairs becomes ‘boring’ when people get either really good at it or stuck in a rut where they have plateaued out.

Without external factors pushing people to be motivated, they have to be internally motivated to use things to improve themselves. If not, they just sort of rot like still water.

Which shows virtue, but Art doesn’t even try to change himself by capitalizing his sentences, even though what he copies and pastes from other people’s writing, is capitalized.

Thus it makes reading rather difficult. Not impossible, but difficult.

There is a great imbalance to someone who wants to “change the world” but can’t even change himself long enough to capitalize his own sentences, while expecting others to change their behavior. Doesn’t work like that.

Nobody did chi gong, martial art exercises, tournaments, and what not?

Generally, if I think a post is too long or not interesting, I scroll past without comment.

I have friends who worked on Operation Deep Freeze. Mostly flying in supplies from Christchurch, New Zealand. But one who actually wintered over. That was back in the late 50s. They reported that consumption of alcohol was pretty high. Even for those who were in New Zealand. I think drinking was much heavier in the military in those days than it is today.

I spent a year in the Philippines and the experience was much as Ray describes. Time on the hands, cheap and easily available booze, it was a way to kill time and dull the sense of boredom. How much better would it have been if we had had Kindles or computers? We might have read more and drank less. Maybe not. The Antarctic scientists are still drinking heavily and they have Kindles, computers, and women (now).

This is a person for whom the internet acronym TL;DR (TOO LONG; DIDN’T READ) was made.