Hello there,
I wanted to start by making a note of this thing I'm really aware of: I write in a language that is quite loaded for me. The language that was/is an entry ticket to a lot of space, a lot of learning and a lot of privilege in a sense. But why are these things considered a privilege and not the fact that I can speak my own mother tongue? There's an obvious answer and that's colonization.
And still, there's a positive side to this and I am not one to gloss over shitty situations by showing the bright side...if there wasn't that English hegemony, a lot of us wouldn't even be able to communicate and make friends with one another.
Similarly, this case can be made with capitalism. I hate capitalism and the consumerist race it has created of everything, the attention spans that have been shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, the extraction...all of it.
But I've also benefited from capitalism. A lot.
The Thawing
I didn't know what to do with the contradiction, and I often feel like a hypocrite because of it. I'm at odds with the very essence of capitalism and I am not sure if this is because I'm at the losing end of it. If capitalism worked for me, if there was a chance for me to be able to fit within the structures of capitalism, would I have still thought the same thing about it?
I do consume the products of capitalism as a system, but I like to think that I engage in very mindful, conscious and curated consumption. Which doesn't make me a better person, it just makes me...me?
Things like this, thoughts like this are what made me think of taking capitalism through the spiral of the work that reconnects to begin with. The expanded spiral of the work that reconnects goes like this:
- Grounding in Gratitude
- Social and Self Awareness
- Systems of Oppression
- Honoring our pain for the world
- Seeing with new/ancient eyes
- Liberation
- Going Forth
And that's basically what we'll be doing with a focus on capitalism in the Thawing which starts on the 13th of November! You can join me at a sliding scale price that starts at $90
