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We are the product of our own intensities; the product of a constant balancing act that goes on between the ups and downs of everyday life and how we interpret that in order to impose on ourselves a sense of our own identity. We live a life of intensity, but such intensity is ultimately empty in that it can never provide the promise that appears to underpin it, and a life of exhaustion is the end product (see Garcia, 2018). The experience society perpetuates this process and as such, as Horkheimer and Adorno (1972) would no doubt have put it, the consumer is indeed forced to be satisfied with the menu.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
If we want to build powerful movements here, we need a spectrum of approaches and we need to figure out ways to organize without paid staff and without funding. We need to take risks, and then compare strategies. In addition, we need to think of strategic ways to involve people of all sectors in the movement—be they unwaged mothers, nonprofit workers, teachers, or grocery store workers. We need to answer the question of how to strategically involve not just traditional political sectors to effect mass social change.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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