Marieke van Dam
@mariekevandam
Marieke van Dam
What do we need, and what do we only reach for out of habit? What exhausts, and what nourishes?
Social environments on the internet provide a bountiful — and sometimes incongruous — bundle: conversation, riffing, jokes and shitposts, entertainment, learning, distraction, inspiration, meeting interesting people.
It's a beautiful bundle, to be sure!... See more
Social environments on the internet provide a bountiful — and sometimes incongruous — bundle: conversation, riffing, jokes and shitposts, entertainment, learning, distraction, inspiration, meeting interesting people.
It's a beautiful bundle, to be sure!... See more
Towards Small-Scale Social
joy is probably the most difficult emotion to really feel. Why? Because when we lose the ability or willingness to be vulnerable, joy becomes something we approach with deep foreboding. This shift from our younger self’s greeting of joy with unalloyed delight happens slowly and outside of our awareness. We don’t seem to even know that it’s
... See morethe decentering of human life from its cosmic significance, a decline in our sense of purpose, and a sensation of having lost the soul that gave earlier human societies their adaptiveness and vitality. It seems we are left with a feeling of having lost our place in the world along with a sense of who we are and what we ought to do with ourselves.
John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, • Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
In her book Enchantment, author Katherine May describes disenchantment as a state “we may call by many names — burnout, apathy, alienation — but one that visits upon every life in one form or another, at one time or another, pulsating with the unmet longing for something elemental and ancient, with the yearning to see the world as beautiful again... See more
A More Play-Full Future: RADAR Future #2
“When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might not be able to see what is lost, but we can definitely feel its absence.”
risk the appearance of foolishness by being prepared to believe that world might yet be enchanted.
Spontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.twitter.com