how we survive _this_
if you zoom out, way beyond the timescales we’re accustomed to planning our lives on, you might start to think of yourself as a participant in a culture of transition. You can engage with what he called the “thousand year clean-up,” where the “new normal is about a millennium from now.”
Rosie Spinks • How I Became 'Collapse Aware'
Here is the hill I am prepared to die on: we as a culture have to stop believing that the goal is to eliminate discomfort. It’s time to dig deeper and learn to use these states rather than be used by them. To recognize that sometimes, feeling like shit isn't a bug in the system — it's a feature.
Sara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
Now, standing in the future, the present me would never have imagined how much the world would transform in just a few short decades. How much more change might we see in the decades to come?
Even the shifts we saw coming—like rising temperatures from climate change—only truly hit when we felt the unbearable heat... See more
instagram.comthis 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
Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” The simple step a courageous individual must take is to decline to take part in the lie, he said. “One word of truth outweighs the world.” A word of truth can sustain others by encouraging them, by reminding them that they’re not alone and that honor
... See moreCharlie Sykes • This Is Not the Moment to Give Up
What I've come to understand is that “negative” states aren't the enemy. As awful as they feel, they're not something to be eliminated or optimized away. They're signals. Navigation points. When I'm in a heightened state of anxiety, it's not a character defect — it's a compass. And if anxiety can be a compass, maybe it’s time to completely reframe
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
But what happens when systemic change doesn’t seem to come? When we’re burned out by another traumatic election cycle, and all we want to do is retreat into our homes and judge our Trump-supporting neighbors? Baby boomers have come to realize that their adult children’s lives likely won’t be as economically prosperous as their own. But many millenn
... See moreRosie Spinks • How I Became 'Collapse Aware'
I am sitting fully with the fact things are the actual fuck going to be ugly and shocking. The train has left the station. But I am going to be here, standing sturdy, dearly holding onto my morals and my humanity. I am going to choose to live as I feel we should be living. I am going to be defiant.