One City’s Secret to Happiness: The Annual Burning of a 50-Foot Effigy
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One City’s Secret to Happiness: The Annual Burning of a 50-Foot Effigy
Absorbed in comfort, we are restless. Drowning in excess, we are hollow. The statistics confirm what our souls already know: despair has metastasized, anxiety has become our natural state, and in the absence of real suffering, we have made a spectacle of our own discontent.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
There’s a lot of alienation; a lot of disaster porn. We need grieving rituals so we can go through our despair together, so we can face the losses we know are coming.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Ritualization is a potent stabilizing agent, a simple salve for a stressful time if only we are mindful of how we use its powers.
The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual
Most people run from real fire. They distract themselves with busy work, or numb themselves with consumption, or try to rebrand their breakdown as a breakthrough before the ashes have even cooled.
Instead of avoiding the inevitable chaos of your life, learn to turn into it.
Stop trying to pop-psych your way out of your devastation. Stop trying to man... See more
Instead of avoiding the inevitable chaos of your life, learn to turn into it.
Stop trying to pop-psych your way out of your devastation. Stop trying to man... See more