Ill Being
What is disease 🤒 but a lack of ease?
What is Business 💼🤑💼
but a systematic lack of ease?
🚶 Pretty much everybody’s
got a case of the busyness 🏃
😷 This covidian plague
isn’t going anywhere
until we remember how to be easy 🍰
Our cells are
signaling chronic illness.
We are unwell by any measure of wellness.
We are malnourished
We are irradiated
We are overworked
We are underslept
🦠 We’ve all got Braess’s syndrome 🕴️
Rushing is slowing us down 🐰🐢🐰 Hurry is stopping our hearts.
And there’s no such thing as a cure, at least according to reductionist science and the nihilistic school of allopathy.
the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease
But there is a cure.
And it’s easy.
I mean Easeness.
We need rest! 🛌
We come here only to sleep, we come here only to dream; it is not true, it is not true that we come to live on earth. — Cantares mexicanos 18.39,
a song of the pre-Colonial Aztecs
We are ungrounded
We are deathly lonely.
Aaryan, grade 12 In my school, most of us have, on average, maybe, two acquaintances…. No “friends”.
We are riddled with sweeteners, addled with uppers, saddled with alcoholism, paddling upstream between two rocks in a Amazon box without no oar.
We are opioided to oblivion.
Timothy Snyder, *Our Malady* Yet enduring pain in silence also creates a vulnerability, … . The normality of enduring the pain then, imperceptibly, becomes the normality of taking the pill. What never changes is the lack of human contact. We can slip from silence about pain to silence about addiction.
Timothy Snyder, *Our Malady* When painkillers work, that creates a particular danger, because then we can ignore the deeper sources of suffering. … It used to be that American politicians competed with visions of a brighter future. Now a good deal of our politics is the solicitation and manipulation of pain. … They want people staggered by suffering, so they oppose health care. Pain is their politics, their propaganda is a death trap.
Timothy Snyder, *Our Malady* We are not free when we are sick. And when we are in pain, or when we are anxious about illness to come, rulers seize upon our suffering, lie to us, and strip away our other freedoms.
America’s longest war (so far)
was fought over poppies.
We are ADHD toddlers with iPads.
We are SSRI’d teenagers with guns.
We’ve let 🐄ine makers
off the hook
to cull the herd
We go on jabbing and boosting
our chronically ill children
while their heart sacs swell and burst.
Once loneliness had reach epidemic
Is it any wonder we are unwell!?
We are unheard, unseen, numb.
We are Xanax’d into a fugue state.
We are sitting our asses to death.
We are working ourselves miserable.
We all need fullsmile, especially…
usurious investors
progress obsessors
job promising politicians
work addicts and other slaves
shopaholics and scroll-junkies
phone and substance abusers
superfluous middle management
growth hackers and HODLers
tax accountants and tax dodgers
megalomaniacs and martyrs
prodigies and the problem child
the damaged and the lost
the gift and the curse