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They are asking about a job. I am thinking about identity, community, purpose - the things that provide meaning and motivation. I am talking about my life.

Just noting that the field of 'mental health' is designed around an adaptive/maladaptive compatibility paradigm with Anglo-Capitalist Modernity

Idea of mental health requires of a deep dive

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And this world, they insist, is where we belong. This wider field of consciousness is our native land. We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.

⚘ The Bhagavad Gita, Foreword

People artificially simulate/stimulate own state of being to feel euphoric, high, bliss

Nervous system exceeds natural state of neutral, calm balance

Adrenal glands experience pressure and system starts shooting {dopamine, adrenaline, cortisol}

As if the human being is experiencing life threat

This is how you shorten the period of your biological clock

Repeating such experiences again and again, person feels burnt out

TikTok=Slot Machine

I think with the grown-ups what I’m trying to do is encourage a full shame-ectomy. Embarrassment is a learned disease that begins to manifest itself in early adolescence. By adulthood, it can have ossified your entire spirit. A saving grace of having kids is that for the first time—in maybe a very long time—there’s permission to be silly. I encourage that.

If you claim that being creative—by writing, drawing, or singing songs—is important, then you have to do those things. Otherwise, you’re lying and kids smell a lie. A lot of my work over the last couple years has been trying to create situations that allow the grown-ups in kids’ lives to be sillier by doodling, drawing, and demonstrating the joy in the creative process. If I’m doing a drawing demonstration, it’s for everyone, because drawing is a physicalized form of empathy—and who can’t use a bit more of that?

-Mo Willems

a mismatch of the human brain with our current situation/environment

morphology is semiotic