Necessarily Woke
It’s Freya’s day, thank Odin. In the mailbox this morning, reminders:
Tina Turner died this week. She was 83.
Today is the 97th anniversary of Miles Davis' birth. The jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer was born in 1926 Alton, Illinois.
Photographer Dorothea Lange was born 128 years ago today in 1895 Hoboken, New Jersey.
The features of our unequal society are systematically (re)framed by the confidence culture as individual psychological problems, requiring us to change women [and minority “others” subjected to similar inequality and subjugation], not the world. – Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment. . . .We've had over 100 years of psychotherapy and the world's getting worse . . . . Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet. – James Hillman
We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it. – James Hillman
There is no need to shoulder a useless load. Whatever our past, whether we benefit from our experiences depends on our attitude toward the present. – Shundo Aoyama