What is your meaning of life?
Your (current) guiding mantra that you come back to?
The thing that gets you up and gives you the energy to be?
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Big questions for a Thursday morning I know, and intimate questions to be asking/answering publicly, but I ask because I genuinely believe that if we're too transition to a post-capitalist world where people are (more) free to spend their time and energy as they decide: we need to get better (collectively and as individuals) at discussing and working out why we're doing what we're doing.
@da5nsy These are great questions and I agree, should be talked about. Often! Much if not most of my blog is addressing this and reflects that I've lived most of my life in an attempt to exist outside of #capitalism. It's far from being a disconnected or impermeable bubble, but rather, a lived awareness that there are steps to be taken to not cooperate with my own subjugation. I prioritize my #freedom by rejecting #consumerism. I'm still stuck in it, but not to the degree that most are.
@da5nsy "Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away from you. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free." - Utah Phillips
I'd been living this way before I heard him say this but it sums it up well. It's a daily, lived ethics that has no end. An active practice of ethical freedom. #Resistance that has to be reaffirmed, a lived revolution that starts with me but requires sharing and cooperation with others to be complete.
I suspect there'll be one heck of a vacuum left by "you do what you do because capitalism forces you to", and addressing it in advance might save some pain.
I also strongly suspect that people might hold onto the current capitalist status quo to avoid having to actually engage with this.
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