So, I am sitting here brainstorming... How am I going to do it? How am I going to beat Neoliberalism? First and foremost, I like this idea that we humans are backwards. Our relationship with Nature is a destructive one. So, we have to live backwards.
When I go to the grocery store I try to go when there are no cars out on the roads and no people in the stores.
I try not to be a total rube consumer. By that I don't necessarily mean I'm a smart consumer. I try to not be a consumer at all but I need food to eat and clothes to wear.
The master is capital. How do I kill capital? How do I walk away from capital? Capital owns me. It compells me to work / perform / produce. I can kill myself. I am trying to find other ways. There might not be other ways. Is there a world that I can work / perform / produce at a decent enough level where I gain some freedom and don't exploit myself to the point of burnout and depression and anxiety?
Fuck Protestants and their obsession with work. I have to work and produce though or else I will run out of capital. New breaks and tires in order to get to work is not cheap but the start of all of this is needing a car and money to go grocery shopping and buying food. That is the start of it all. It's got me going to this job interview tomorrow and everything just keeps on going.
Simone Weil says when you become a slave you lose half of your soul. I am a slave to capital whether I am employed or not employed so I guess half my soul is gone. Getting a job is almost like becoming a slave twice. Maybe I will have a quarter of my soul left.
I don't know if there is such a thing as the Sovereign Individual. That means that someone beat society completely by themselves which seems impossible. That does not mean that being sovereign is something not to strive for. It is just that under most definitions it is unlikely that any of us will become a supreme ruler. I would not mind possessing supreme and ultimate power to tend to my garden or play the guitar but I think what most people are thinking about is something like Elon Musk and I don't even think he has a good life. For starters, working 16+ hour days every day of the week is the opposite of what I would be interested in.
United States. Apr 16 2024 02:58. Posts 8585
