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| [NL] Stress, Burn-out, ADD en pathologische angstaanvallen zijn maar enkele voorbeelden van de hedendaagse malaise van te veel werk - te weinig voldoening, te veel informatie - te weinig betekenis. We zijn als samenleving een beetje de kluts kwijt... Wat is er gebeurd met de beloftes dat democratie en technologische innovatie een paradijselijke rechtvaardige samenleving met zich zouden brengen, met een overvloed aan vrije tijd en zelfontwikkeling? | [NL] Stress, Burn-out, ADD en pathologische angstaanvallen zijn maar enkele voorbeelden van de hedendaagse malaise van te veel werk - te weinig voldoening, te veel informatie - te weinig betekenis. We zijn als samenleving een beetje de kluts kwijt... Wat is er gebeurd met de beloftes dat democratie en technologische innovatie een paradijselijke rechtvaardige samenleving met zich zouden brengen, met een overvloed aan vrije tijd en zelfontwikkeling? | ||
| + | See also: [[https:// | ||
| ==== Experiments ==== | ==== Experiments ==== | ||
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| * go fishing. if fishing is too stressful, go fishing without hooks... | * go fishing. if fishing is too stressful, go fishing without hooks... | ||
| + | * go driving. if driving is too stressful, go driving without the car... | ||
| + | * go bird watching. if birdwatching is too stressful, go birdwatching without glasses... | ||
| ==== Idlers Ideas ==== | ==== Idlers Ideas ==== | ||
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| + | ==== Keeping Quiet ==== | ||
| + | |||
| + | by Pablo Neruda | ||
| + | |||
| + | A callarse | ||
| + | |||
| + | Ahora contaremos doce\\ | ||
| + | y nos quedamos todos quietos.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Por una vez sobre la tierra\\ | ||
| + | no hablemos en ningún idioma,\\ | ||
| + | por un segundo detengámonos, | ||
| + | no movamos tanto los brazos.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Sería un minuto fragante,\\ | ||
| + | sin prisa, sin locomotoras, | ||
| + | todos estaríamos juntos\\ | ||
| + | en una inquietud instantánea.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Los pescadores del mar frió\\ | ||
| + | no harían daño a las ballenas\\ | ||
| + | y el trabajador de la sal\\ | ||
| + | miraría sus manos rotas.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Los que preparan guerras verdes,\\ | ||
| + | guerras de gas, guerras de fuego,\\ | ||
| + | victorias sin sobrevivientes, | ||
| + | se pondrían un traje puro\\ | ||
| + | y andarían son sus hermanos\\ | ||
| + | por la sombra, sin hacer nada.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | No se confunda lo quiero\\ | ||
| + | con la inacción definitiva: | ||
| + | la vida es solo lo que se hace,\\ | ||
| + | no quiero nada con la muerte.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Si no pudimos ser unánimes\\ | ||
| + | moviendo tanto nuestras vidas\\ | ||
| + | tal vez no hacer nada una vez,\\ | ||
| + | tal vez un gran silencio pueda\\ | ||
| + | interrumpir esta tristeza,\\ | ||
| + | este no entendernos jamás\\ | ||
| + | y amenazarnos con la muerte,\\ | ||
| + | tal vez la tierra nos enseñe\\ | ||
| + | cuando todo parece muerto\\ | ||
| + | y luego todo estaba vivo.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Ahora contare hasta doce\\ | ||
| + | y tú te callas y me voy.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | Keeping Quiet | ||
| + | |||
| + | Now we will count to twelve\\ | ||
| + | and we will all keep still.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | For once on the face of the earth,\\ | ||
| + | let's not speak in any language;\\ | ||
| + | let's stop for one second,\\ | ||
| + | and not move our arms so much.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | It would be an exotic moment\\ | ||
| + | without rush, without engines;\\ | ||
| + | we would all be together\\ | ||
| + | in a sudden strangeness.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Fisherman in the cold sea\\ | ||
| + | would not harm whales\\ | ||
| + | and the man gathering salt\\ | ||
| + | would look at his hurt hands.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Those who prepare green wars,\\ | ||
| + | wars with gas, wars with fire,\\ | ||
| + | victories with no survivors, | ||
| + | would put on clean clothes\\ | ||
| + | and walk about with their brothers\\ | ||
| + | in the shade, doing nothing.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | What I want should not be confused\\ | ||
| + | with total inactivity.\\ | ||
| + | Life is what it is about;\\ | ||
| + | I want no truck with death.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | If we were not so single-minded\\ | ||
| + | about keeping our lives moving,\\ | ||
| + | and for once could do nothing,\\ | ||
| + | perhaps a huge silence\\ | ||
| + | might interrupt this sadness\\ | ||
| + | of never understanding ourselves\\ | ||
| + | and of threatening ourselves with death.\\ | ||
| + | Perhaps the earth can teach us\\ | ||
| + | as when everything seems dead\\ | ||
| + | and later proves to be alive.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Now I'll count up to twelve\\ | ||
| + | and you keep quiet and I will go.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | —from Extravagaria | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==== Become the sky ==== | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | Inside this new love,\\ | ||
| + | die.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Your way begins on the other side.\\ | ||
| + | Become the sky.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Take an axe to the prison wall.\\ | ||
| + | Escape.\\ | ||
| + | Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.\\ | ||
| + | Do it now.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | You’re covered with a thick cloud.\\ | ||
| + | Slide out the side.\\ | ||
| + | Die,\\ | ||
| + | and be quiet.\\ | ||
| + | Quietness is the surest sign\\ | ||
| + | that you’ve died.\\ | ||
| + | Your old life was a frantic running from silence.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | The speechless full moon comes out now.\\ | ||
| + | |||
| + | -Rumi | ||
maja