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“Employers can dangle workplace wellness initiatives to offset the stress they create in part because we’ve accepted the concept en masse: it’s our job to fix what’s “wrong” with us. Consequently, employers are always suggesting more ways to get well, yet never offering less work or more substantial help.”
― The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
― The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
“Faux self-care is a method—in the moment, going for a run might improve your mood, but it does nothing to change the circumstances in your life that led you to feel drained, energy-less, or down. On the other hand, the work of real self-care is about going deeper and identifying the core principles to guide decision-making. When you apply these principles to your life, you don’t just feel relief in the moment, you design a system of living that prevents the problems from coming up in the first place.”
― Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
― Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
“You keep obsessively holding yourself to these idealised standards, forcing yourself to fit them. It's another way, among many, for you to keep punishing yourself.”
― I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
― I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
“Wellness has both empowered and enslaved women.”
― The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
― The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
“Capitalism's geography has a distinctive pyrogeography, one that is part of the fossil record. Indigenous People had thoroughly modified New World landscapes through fire. In eastern North America, they coproduced the 'mosaic quality' of forest, savannah, and meadow that Europeans took for pristine nature. Between Columbus' arrival and around 1650, disease and colonial violence reduced Indigenous populations in the Americas by 95 percent. With fewer humans burning and cutting them down, forests recovered so vigorously that the New World became a planetary carbon sink. Forest growth cooled the planet so much that the Indigenous holocaust contributed to the Little Ice Age's severity....it would be wrong to characterize this episode of genocide and reforestation as anthropogenic. The colonial exterminations of Indigenous Peoples were the work not of all humans, but of conquerors and capitalists. *Capitalogenic* would be more appropriate. And if we are tempted to conflate capitalism with the Industrial Revolution, these transformations ought to serve notice that early capitalism's destruction was so profound that it changed planetary climate four centuries ago.”
― A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
― A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
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