Victoria Rooke
@victoriatwig
Victoria Rooke
@victoriatwig
Time is speeding up…the distance between us wanting something and achieving it is reducing. —> Compare with Zygmunt B idea of time in liquid modernity.
The idea of taking an afternoon off, no speaking to people, no consumption, in order to slow down reminds me of Vipassana.
The skills that will matter in the future will be things like judgement, taste, the ability to make connections across disciplines, story telling and moral/ethical reasoning
The keys: Meditation. Silence. Solitude. Yoga. Long walks. Sweating. Sleep discipline. Nature. Disconnection. Contemplation. Healthy discourse.
William Blake poem, see last line;
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
The individual and
« People are less weird today…we are in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and epidemic of the mundane»
« Creativity is just deviance put to good use »
Makes me think of Anarchy Calaesthenics
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