If we want things to change, we have to change our behavior. We have to repeatedly say no to fast, convenient, productive-at-all-costs hustle culture and the infrastructure it calls for, and yes to spending hours with friends in the park after work, or on the patio of our favorite establishment (that’s not next to a parking lot or busy highway)

Things that should be our innate human rights have become symbols of status. Big Wellness gets us coming and going—profiting from both our dysregulation and our desperate attempts to “heal”, and we forget our nature in the process. We’ve relegated health to aesthetics and completely lost the plot.

They kept us inside at desks under fluorescent lighting and sold us walking pads and red light devices. They took away our third spaces, erected parking lots and drive-throughs, and then sold us adaptogen gummies. Instead of giving us the right to disconnect, they sold us productivity planners.

In our pursuit of more, we’ve engineered all of the actual wellness—the walkable cities, third spaces, access to healthcare, access to nature, etc.—out of society... and now it’s being sold back to us.