This just emphasizes the fact that we as beings are immeasurable and have an infinite capacity that capitalist exploiters feel they can take advantage of. They know how powerful we are! Everything these colonizers have done since the raping of the land and the indigenous, is to try and dim us in every aspect of their version of “life” to keep an illusion of “control” afloat. Remembering that we are infinite also reminds us that we can NEVER be put into a box and we can NEVER be controlled. This resonated a lot, thank you!
Thanks for writing! This section in particular jumped out at me:
"The reification of society treats people as things. You start treating yourself that way too; instead of meaning and purpose, you focus on production.
Am I productive enough?
Am I optimizing my time well enough?
This process is physically and psychologically draining as well, because you never allow yourself to rest (along with the fact that you cannot rest in many cases)."
Working in the mental health field, I see the impact of this so often (definitely exacerbated by the hustle culture BS that pops up on social media so often). These feelings around not being "productive" enough can get so self-internalized and lead to really damaging consequences, with a knee jerk solution sometimes being "well, I just need to hustle harder or work harder," which leads to even less time for rest and reflection.
You left in a prompt from the LLM you used to write this ☠️ The absurdity of reading an LLM generated essay about labor alienation is just too much. I checked to see if it was published on 4/1, alas no. Whether intentional or not, this is art, and I love it. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this. One of the most despair-ful days in a long long long time
This just emphasizes the fact that we as beings are immeasurable and have an infinite capacity that capitalist exploiters feel they can take advantage of. They know how powerful we are! Everything these colonizers have done since the raping of the land and the indigenous, is to try and dim us in every aspect of their version of “life” to keep an illusion of “control” afloat. Remembering that we are infinite also reminds us that we can NEVER be put into a box and we can NEVER be controlled. This resonated a lot, thank you!
Thanks for writing! This section in particular jumped out at me:
"The reification of society treats people as things. You start treating yourself that way too; instead of meaning and purpose, you focus on production.
Am I productive enough?
Am I optimizing my time well enough?
This process is physically and psychologically draining as well, because you never allow yourself to rest (along with the fact that you cannot rest in many cases)."
Working in the mental health field, I see the impact of this so often (definitely exacerbated by the hustle culture BS that pops up on social media so often). These feelings around not being "productive" enough can get so self-internalized and lead to really damaging consequences, with a knee jerk solution sometimes being "well, I just need to hustle harder or work harder," which leads to even less time for rest and reflection.
You left in a prompt from the LLM you used to write this ☠️ The absurdity of reading an LLM generated essay about labor alienation is just too much. I checked to see if it was published on 4/1, alas no. Whether intentional or not, this is art, and I love it. Thank you for sharing.
I think I need to read this.