Unless you’re saving lives or something, abandon the arrogant, modernist belief that your individual labor has meaning. Adopt the posture of a hospice worker. View your role as tending to a dying institution, minimizing the immediate suffering of the people trapped within it, including yourself. Focus on the enjoyable interpersonal relationships of your office. Shield your subordinates from upper-management toxicity. Practice extreme, localized empathy.
Thought this was worth reviewing again, specifically “extreme, localized empathy.” We can buy into our place in the workforce as something we’re doing to make life easier for our favorite coworker instead of something we’re doing for “the company.”
This is why looking for a job right now is just so surreal. I have always relied on intrinsinct motivation to push me beyond what the extrinsinct can. But that is gone. Its all just extrinsinct and its hard to show excitement in the same way. I always felt disgust at fake it till you make it type stuff but at this point just pretending I want the job is the fake it part.
Do you mean “intrinsic” and “extrinsic”?
yesh.
“Fake it that you could make it” type shit
Planet is not dying - it just is trying to get rid of humanity. Life existed 3.7billion years before us and will exist billion of years in the future. Humans were just a very short 65 million year long mistake.
The currently ongoing mass-extinction isn’t exclusive to humans, but rather caused by them. So yes the planet as in its ecosystem is dying… maybe it is not fatal in the end, but it sure is killing a lot of species.
All I meant was that life always finds a way. There have been five major mass extinction events on record, each wiping out 70 - 85% of all species. Given enough time without human interference, ecosystems will recover and stabilize.
When you really think about it, it’s insane: The Industrial Revolution and the dramatic transformation of landscapes and environments only began around 200 years ago. Yet in that short time, humanity has managed to destabilize ecosystems on a global scale and it doesn’t seem that we will stop anytime soon.
Theres evidence that the genocide of the americas caused the little ice age, so we’ve actually had great impacts even outside of industrialization, likely largely from widespread cooking and heating fires. The more of us there are, the more impact we seem to have.
There’s been plenty of mass extinctions already. Nature/life does not care if most of the species get lost.
“Every living thing you’ve ever seen with your own eyes is facing extinction”
“Yeah but some bacteria will probably be fine”
Why do you guys feel the need to point this out every time? Let the suicidal greed that’s causing the death of most life forms on the planet be the focus of the conversation instead of pivoting to some philosophical musings on a future that no one wants to experience. That’s an insane thing to do.
Not the planet, but not just humans.
We’re causing a mass extinction of more species thanwe can literally count.
4.2 million years ago (Australopithecus), or 0.3 million years (Homo sapiens).
Stop being so arrogant. Your culture is not humanity. Like other resilient elements of the biosphere, humanity will survive. We will solve capitalism like we solved soil depletion and germ theory.
Humanity is closing all the windows and turning the car on with no air leakage in the room.
She’s describing me at work
- Yes, it does sound exactly like being a minority in hostile environment (I can only ascertain that’s what being gay in conservative society feels like, but I can assume any minority can be described that way).
- “Deep Adaptation" sounds very close to what we have societally do in Poland and it can very easily become a trap where you can’t meaningfully change anything in exchange for feeling a little bit better about yourself.
