"SEEING...
is an intellectual aesthetic exercise which increases one's inalienable capital, riches that can be accumulated without cost, once acquired, cannot be lost or stolen.”
George Nelson
Highly recommended bit of reading:
Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/23/10-years-of-brain-pickings/
WHAT IF WE EASE OFF THE GLORIFICATION OF BEING BUSY?
What if we used that energy to tune into ourselves and surroundings rather than reducing life’s details into a kind of background condition visual muzak?
I think now more than ever before is a good time to move against the grind culture that capitalism promotes, and pull something back for ourselves. Putting it bluntly, Capitalism thrives on exploitation, greed and oppression. It’s built on a prejudiced (race and class) system that abuses the rights and needs of people to line the pockets of a few.
Our fast-paced lifestyles normalise that damaging kind of competitive grind culture. We pushing ourselves to the limit for the sake of being busy. We’ve reached a point where we feel anxious and uncomfortable when we are less busy. We grind ourselves to the point of burn-out and then we seek escape from it all.
Grind culture is damaging. Damages our health our relationships and our connection to nature.
I’d like to think that Super Ordinary life is a gentle resistance against this. We can go slower, we can rest, we can stop to “smell the roses” and appreciate the “little things”. We do not need to feel anxious, guilty or unproductive for slowing down enough to notice more of all the stuff we’ve been busy overlooking.
We have so much to gain from stepping away from grind culture.
Resources for further reading:
10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings - a lot of which has to do with take time out of the grind. https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/23/10-years-of-brain-pickings/
The Nap Ministry examines the liberating power of naps as a form of resistance and reparation: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com
