iii. What is it like to be human today?
What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?
iii. What is it like to be human today?
Most people think they are their thinking. In contemplation, we move beneath thoughts and sensations to the level of pure being and naked awareness.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
both the left and the right claim that if the other gains power it means the end of things as we know it.
What if both are right? What if each is one half of the cayalyst bring the end of modernity, because both are so captured by modernity’s core promise and assumptions?
The art of settling
From settling for in life to settling in.
Lögom as example
“If you don't move with the land, the land will move you.”
From Sandtalk
Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity. – Sebastian Junger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be
done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can
shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.
The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”
From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
Sebastian Junger • Tribe — Sebastian Junger
We don’t react to people - we react to a version of them shaped by our biases, filters, fears, hopes and expectations.