that post that’s like “we see it as indulgence when others express the things we suppress in ourselves” has genuinely done more for my emotional health than going on meds did
i wish i could find the original post bc once you start noticing that others see it as indulgence when you express that which they repress in themselves you can’t stop seeing it
By Penny Pinotti
The general strike in Bolivia has eclipsed the 45 day mark. The main demand of the strike is the resignation of right-wing President of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz Pereira. Paz is aligned with the Trump administration as corporations from the United States seek to control Bolivia’s natural resources, particularly lithium, as well as tin, copper, zinc, silver, and natural gas. Currently, the areas of Bolivia rich in resources are surrounded by Indigenous territories.
“The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.”— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
This is the devil’s bargain of the technological society, and we have been falling for it forever: embrace the new, lose the old, and find yourself more deeply entwined in a technological web from which you cannot extricate yourself even if you want to … It’s often suggested that when we moved from Christendom via the Enlightenment into our current age, whatever we might call it, we desacralised or ‘disenchanted’ our culture: that we became pure materialists. For its proponents, this process was a move towards ‘reason’ and away from ‘superstition’. For opponents, it represented a slide into decadence and moral dissolution … ‘The fate of our times’, wrote pioneering sociologist Max Weber, ‘is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world’.
Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine