Adiaphora

One of the saddest things you can do is buy fast food, park your car, and then eat the fast food while listening to an improving podcast. I mean improving in the sense that Jimmy Gatz used it when he sought to read “one improving book or magazine per week.” It’s media you consume in order to become a better person. Eating chicken tenders with sweet-and-sour sauce in a parking lot, alone in your car, is sad because it’s lonely and self-destructive. Listening to an improving podcast while doing this is worse, because your pattern of recent choices is proof you’re not actually trying to improve yourself and probably can’t picture even the vaguest lines of the road to improvement.