Regarding the study involving cookies and radishes, I don’t quite follow how to get to Rule #2 (“What looks like laziness is often exhaustion”). Is the conclusion based on the notion that the cookie eaters got more caloric energy, so they had more energy to stay on the impossible/meaningless task longer than those nourished by mere radishes?
If so, it rather confirms my suspicions that the the Standard American Diet was designed to keep people working their bullshit jobs. Unless I'm totally missing the point, don't you think Graeber could have had a field day with this study?
Tereza, can you flesh out more of these ideas into practical, real life options? Like how do we engage our Rider and Elephant in daily life? How do we even know which direction to point with our Rider and Elephant? I'm really interested in what I can do that has the most bang for the buck. For example, I used to care a lot about language, and I would say often "language really matters!". But now I think that was my puny way of trying to control something that didn't matter all that much! If we all had equality and safety and community and health and true freedom, then it doesn't matter as much (to me any longer) about labels, identity, etc. When I feel solid in my own abilities and have deep confidence I give a flying fig if someone calls me "sweetie" or something annoying like that. So in retrospect I feel like I was barking up the wrong tree with good intentions for a bunch of years. Now I feel that getting people, me included, to feel more and more deeply empowered is the most important direction.....but is it? What actions matter most?
I love that you shared about the dinners you hosted. And I just love how you 1. compliment, 2. question, 3. comment if you must. I see that played out in all your comments on all your articles. I want to learn how to do this. Can you elaborate more on this?
I am not sure Russel Brand should be on that list. Seems plausible that he is an insider with a really good act. He seems to have been a handler for Katy Perry more than a equal partner based on some video footage being shared.
Regarding the study involving cookies and radishes, I don’t quite follow how to get to Rule #2 (“What looks like laziness is often exhaustion”). Is the conclusion based on the notion that the cookie eaters got more caloric energy, so they had more energy to stay on the impossible/meaningless task longer than those nourished by mere radishes?
If so, it rather confirms my suspicions that the the Standard American Diet was designed to keep people working their bullshit jobs. Unless I'm totally missing the point, don't you think Graeber could have had a field day with this study?
Tereza, can you flesh out more of these ideas into practical, real life options? Like how do we engage our Rider and Elephant in daily life? How do we even know which direction to point with our Rider and Elephant? I'm really interested in what I can do that has the most bang for the buck. For example, I used to care a lot about language, and I would say often "language really matters!". But now I think that was my puny way of trying to control something that didn't matter all that much! If we all had equality and safety and community and health and true freedom, then it doesn't matter as much (to me any longer) about labels, identity, etc. When I feel solid in my own abilities and have deep confidence I give a flying fig if someone calls me "sweetie" or something annoying like that. So in retrospect I feel like I was barking up the wrong tree with good intentions for a bunch of years. Now I feel that getting people, me included, to feel more and more deeply empowered is the most important direction.....but is it? What actions matter most?
I love that you shared about the dinners you hosted. And I just love how you 1. compliment, 2. question, 3. comment if you must. I see that played out in all your comments on all your articles. I want to learn how to do this. Can you elaborate more on this?
I am not sure Russel Brand should be on that list. Seems plausible that he is an insider with a really good act. He seems to have been a handler for Katy Perry more than a equal partner based on some video footage being shared.