Post-individualism
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Post-individualism
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
If you suffer, the fault resides within you, and so too does the solution: You need to learn how to think, feel, and act differently
Devon Frye • Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
While left and right seem totally polarized, they share one thing: the worship of the self.
Freddie deBoer • No One Is Kenough
Episode #188 Achievement Society and the rise of narcissism depression and anxiety - Byung-Chul Han
youtube.comThis was illuminating. My notes:
Negative power is the way people have been control for most of human history.
Negative power means being controlled by prohibition or limitation, telling people you can’t do this or that. Today, people are controlled through positive power. Positive power tells you you can be whatever you want, you’re in charge, so you have no limitations. As long as you can put your head down, focus, grind, achieve your short term goals, set new ones and achieve those.
Authenticity is an ad campaign of neo-liberalism. It's a self absorbed nightmare. People now have to define themselves through themselves without any sort of help from the outside. Everyone is their own little personal project. Everything we learn is not just learning anymore. It's an investment in ourselves. Everything is about mentally optimizing yourself working, producing more efficiently with your mind.
Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.
Justin D. Henderson • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Amanda Palmer • 8 highlights
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