how we survive _this_
I’m doubling down on practices to ensure I keep seeing things calmly and clearly. I am back to meditating. I am back to decaf.
I’m softening my eyes.
Sarah Wilson • We're Now in a Post-Wtaf Era
this state of supreme irritation has helped me get crystal clear about something vital: we need to talk about our culture’s obsession with feeling good all the time.
Sara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
What if instead of waking up refreshed and starting every day with perfectly curated mornings and spotless emotional clarity, there's benefit to being an anxious, cranky, fearful, jittery wreck some days? What if we start recognizing that the jagged edges and rough mornings aren’t signs of failure, but essential features of fully lived life? After
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I’ve broadly come to think of collapse as the antidote to the narrative of infinite progress. The one we’re all steeped in, which tells us that with the right technology, innovation, and political party in power, we can save the way we’re living now. We won’t have to face what’s coming for us in a climate sense, and we don’t have to change anything
... See moreRosie Spinks • How I Became 'Collapse Aware'
It is hard to make room for the depth this work requires when the world is burning around us .
Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far
It’s worth pointing out that in Bendell’s definition I shared above, he does not say collapse is the end to sustenance, shelter, security, pleasure, identity, and meaning — just that it’s an end to our “normal modes” of acquiring all those things.
So start thinking today about how you can attain some of those things elsewhere, from non-monetary or
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antidote/counterpoint to packy magic piece
Surviving…whatever all this is… doesn’t have to mean being left a shell of a human. In culture today, there’s an attempt to make something out of it. To process the tension of living through a long drawn out societal collapse with a sense of wonder, a new perspective, or new ways to overcome challenges.
Maybe things will start getting better. Most
... See moreMolly Barth • Extra-Existentialism
These jagged, restless feelings aren’t just mine — they’re the growing pains of something bigger, the friction of an old world giving way to something new. And I don’t think the weight of all that is something we’re supposed to eliminate. I think it’s something we’re supposed to bear, to hold, and to transform.