Elena Wood

“The more he forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualises himself”

“In the UK in the 1980s, typical CEO pay was twenty times higher than that of the average worker. By 2016, the average FTSE 100 CEO’s pay was 129 times greater than that of the average employee”

“To read slowly, attentively, without agenda or distraction is to resist. Not with noise or spectacle, but with the quiet, deliberate force of contemplation. In an economy built on speed and stimulus, deep reading becomes an act of principled refusal. It defies the algorithm’s logic of efficiency, the newsfeed’s velocity, the platform’s hunger for... See more

The messaging about social media is so confusing. On one hand, it’s the domain of the embarrassingly anti-intellectual, attention-hungry, vain, stupid, trollish... Yet on the other hand, social media can also supposedly propel people to the presidency and shape an entire generation’s opinion on geopolitical issues. So what does it mean to advocate... See more

“The subtext of most self help is to isolate yourself and work on yourself so that one day people will like you and you’ll be successful. They say improve your mindset, build your skills, clean your room... the rich sad person... there are systems in place in society that keep people miserable, so self improvement only goes so far, but I don’t hear... See more

Creation means doing violence upon the idea, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. An act of creation is always an act of betrayal.

“Buddhist teachers Ronald Purser and Andrew Cage are even more forthright: The rapid mainstreaming of mindfulness has provided a domesticated and tame set of meditation techniques for mainly upper-middle-class and corporate elites so they may become more self accepting of their anxieties, helping them to 'thrive;' to have it all - money, power and... See more