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.
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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 🤔