If “ought to” was easy.
Wouldn’t it be nice if “ought to” was easy? Wouldn’t it be cool if we defaulted to health and life-enhancing behaviours? There are people out there who do; I read about them and see their inspirational memes all the time. They are my goal; I would love it my default setting was life-affirming. Unfortunately, when things get tough for me, I tend to do two things: withdraw from the world, and engage in harmful behaviours. This is not a winning philosophy… Continue reading If “ought to” was easy.
Battle Fatigue and a Papilloma.
I’m depression-tired. It’s
different from regular tired. I didn’t wear out my body with activity or my
mind with inputs. I’m tired in my soul.
There’s an element of self-pity and
petulance to the resurgence. “This? Again? Seriously? Not fair.” Continue reading Battle Fatigue and a Papilloma.
We tend to inertia.
We tend to inertia,
a curious feature in a species
so dedicated to evolution;
personal and political,
spiritual and sociological…
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Consumer capitalism.
I don’t like consumer capitalism. I don’t understand it in great detail, what I do know are these two things: it requires the ceaseless pursuit of more and it doesn’t make people happy.
I realized that our consumption-based system was somewhat broken and dysfunctional a while back. I have become concerned with how much value and status we place on stuff. But I didn’t realize until sitting on the porch today that consumer goods themselves are not only ridiculous but structured to be inherently hierarchical. It’s not enough to buy stuff. You always have to be striving for the better, more expensive stuff. It is, after all, how worth is to a great degree is judged…
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From Famine to Feast 