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Aeon essay I enjoyed reading today.
Jun 22, 2025
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given at a lecture in 1944 but eternally relevant, particularly if you struggle with impostor syndrome or social anxiety
Apr 9, 2025
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Britt Wray is an accessible writer who touches upon a lot of topics that evoke climate anxiety β and how to deal with it. While writing it, sheβs grappling with her own desire to bring kids into the world while knowing just how bad things have gotten. I was definitely avoidant of climate news before reading this, and now I feel like I have decent coping strategies and a renewed love for our planet.
Contemporary Western culture may not stand alone in its glaring alienation from nature, but many of us living in it are certainly unaware of the effects of this alienation. We have grown to become what the mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie calls "disenchanted." When we no longer see every bird, tree, or ladybug as worthy of our interest and engagement, we lose some of our own vibrancy as a living thing on this Earth. The prevailing view that says humans are at the top of the chain, in a superior category all our own, is emphatically unenchanted.
And so, what the radical danger of this ecological moment calls on us to do is to muster whatever forces we can to close the chasm or separation. Stopping to notice the beauty and intelligence of creatures beyond one's small human constellation brings sincere, profound connection.
Contemporary Western culture may not stand alone in its glaring alienation from nature, but many of us living in it are certainly unaware of the effects of this alienation. We have grown to become what the mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie calls "disenchanted." When we no longer see every bird, tree, or ladybug as worthy of our interest and engagement, we lose some of our own vibrancy as a living thing on this Earth. The prevailing view that says humans are at the top of the chain, in a superior category all our own, is emphatically unenchanted.
And so, what the radical danger of this ecological moment calls on us to do is to muster whatever forces we can to close the chasm or separation. Stopping to notice the beauty and intelligence of creatures beyond one's small human constellation brings sincere, profound connection.
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πif you want to feel hopeful and unified with other humans
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keene - if you want to feel the opposite of hope about the nature of humans - very interesting and important to learn about how the greed of the Sackler family, doctors, legislators and more contributed to the opioid crisis
Outline - Rachel Cusk - basically just a story of a woman having conversations with people about the human condition
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keene - if you want to feel the opposite of hope about the nature of humans - very interesting and important to learn about how the greed of the Sackler family, doctors, legislators and more contributed to the opioid crisis
Outline - Rachel Cusk - basically just a story of a woman having conversations with people about the human condition
Nov 27, 2024
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π°currently being a bit more financially responsible and finding that the only way for me to stay on top of things is to know my daily budget and actually write it down and see the numbers with my own eyes, because numbers don't mean shit to me otherwise
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I can't remember who originally recced this, but after seeing it I couldn't call it "P-I-dot-F-Y-I" a second longer. It's Paifai to me now.
EDIT: THE ORIGINAL REC WAS RECCED UNDER THIS POST GG https://www.pi.fyi/rec/cls9oxevo00gn12ult19zclxn