Being nice to people is a much easier way to go through life. All of that friction you experience from being an asshole is exhausting. But I guess that's just capitalist discipline - you need that constant level of aggression and zero-sum thinking so we're all always in conflict with each other, creating feelings of hopelessness in others and feeling terrible ourselves from the constant stress.
I got my Empire's Crumble tank top yesterday, it looks awesome. I'm excited to see more designs in the future.
Loved this one Rhyd, thanks. The lived self-sufficiency knowledge of your Mother-in-law is a good example of why it's so important to uphold cross-generational solidarity: another time-honoured way of life that capitalism has done its best to fracture. And what you said about kindness mattering again: things are shifting so quickly at the moment that people's mettle will be increasingly tested. It's amazing how quickly ways of life that have been seen in capitalist terms as unnecessary or fringe activities (such as growing one's own food) are seen in their true light, as centrally important
Truly fantastic article Rhyd, I love it when you write about your personal experiences in your Life, and how you have learned to survive in spite of the way that you were raised, it's very inspiring to me to read your work, as some of us weren't raised the way we wanted to be, but survived anyway, thank you for posting this, I enjoyed reading it a Lot
Thank you, Rhyd, blessings to you, your husband, and mother in law.
Chuck Norris just died! And I thought he was an American version of a Taoist Immortal.
Being nice to people is a much easier way to go through life. All of that friction you experience from being an asshole is exhausting. But I guess that's just capitalist discipline - you need that constant level of aggression and zero-sum thinking so we're all always in conflict with each other, creating feelings of hopelessness in others and feeling terrible ourselves from the constant stress.
I got my Empire's Crumble tank top yesterday, it looks awesome. I'm excited to see more designs in the future.
Loved this one Rhyd, thanks. The lived self-sufficiency knowledge of your Mother-in-law is a good example of why it's so important to uphold cross-generational solidarity: another time-honoured way of life that capitalism has done its best to fracture. And what you said about kindness mattering again: things are shifting so quickly at the moment that people's mettle will be increasingly tested. It's amazing how quickly ways of life that have been seen in capitalist terms as unnecessary or fringe activities (such as growing one's own food) are seen in their true light, as centrally important
Last year you wrote an essay that gave me this. https://danoneill.substack.com/p/crows-and-ravens-know-who-is-unkind?r=3zg2g&utm_medium=ios thank you for your words.
Nice poem, I really liked it, I can tell who has influenced you in a good way of course
Thank you Bonnie- and thanks fir subscribing- being a poet can leave your neglected!
Truly fantastic article Rhyd, I love it when you write about your personal experiences in your Life, and how you have learned to survive in spite of the way that you were raised, it's very inspiring to me to read your work, as some of us weren't raised the way we wanted to be, but survived anyway, thank you for posting this, I enjoyed reading it a Lot
Thankyou . I loved this . So true and so simple really just not always so easy to see so clearly so Thankyou for doing it for me .