I'm kinda confused about how the west converged on growth-as-effort (via pain, shame-directed-self-change, striving, hustling)
rather than growth-as-ease, bc it's the nature of all living things to grow. 🌿
u wouldn't yell at a flowerbud to get it to blossom...?
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there's a lot of barely sublimated christianity in the western memeplex, people just don't believe that they deserve good things. effort is how you demonstrate your virtue. also a big cross-pollination with being a worker under capitalism
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for sure!
i'm now imagining alternatives, maybe some impro-esque or daoist model of growth as tapping more into spontaneity
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beep boop if your family has 1000 years of Christian lineage & 50 years of atheism you're still culturally Christian
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for me i guess i think a lot in terms of obstructions to spotaneity. like it's the nature of things to grow *and* a flower can't grow if it's trapped under concrete or isn't getting sunlight or water or etc. etc.
it's perhaps uniquely the nature of humans that we are capable of reasoning about and then altering the environments in which we grow, which alters what spontaneously emerges in those environments 🤔
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