New post from kfitz.info: "Rest"

[kfitz@hcommons.social]

New post from kfitz.info: "Rest"
https://kfitz.info/rest/

[kate@aus.social]

@kfitz I appreciated this post greatly, thank you for writing. It has sparked a big thought.

“the value of the human in the world as about being rather than doing”

We have created so many frameworks for valuing doing, from the micro of small talk questions like “and what do you do?” to the macro of the labour market, that we are estranged at the level of reflex and gesture from deeper questions of our being.

It feels as though there is a key to this in consciously addressing the limits of our being: our mortality. It’s our mortality that values our being on its own terms, I think.

[kfitz@hcommons.social]

@kate Yes, absolutely! That’s the thread throughout *Four Thousand Weeks*: that all of our striving and optimizing and productivity hacks are no more than a bulwark against mortality — and as such, destined to fail. The best thing we can do is accept that inevitability, recognize that now is all we have, and find our way to what's really important in our lives.

[kate@aus.social]

@kfitz Aha yes! I’m checking out the book and I see that now.

There’s a beautiful print in the collection of @lokigwyn that this all brings to mind, bottom right.

Loki Gwynbleidd 🏴🎨😷 (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images And here are just a few of the many handmade prints, made with love and leftism, that you can find in my shop

Mastodon.ART (mastodon.art)

[vcp@mastodon.social]

@kate @kfitz Amazingly, I had been looking thru my following list to find @lokigwyn earlier today and have the 'Work is Shit' print in my cart but hadn't pulled the trigger on it yet

[kate@aus.social]

@VCP @kfitz @lokigwyn I am such a fan! As I step quietly away from higher education, one of the most troubled sectors in terms of toxic and self-damaging overwork, I want to slip that little dormouse under the doors of many loved colleagues.