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i see your point. i consider ideas to be like stars - they only shine in the darkness. our current world is so full of stress that we have no time to consider silent things anymore.
i think of "progress" and capitalism and the current system as an intense sunlight that burns us, but some are made for the night.
Capitalism pretty much takes survival out of living. And I don't think we should go back to "if you want to eat, you'll have to wrestle and kill that boar" levels, but we need a bit more space to develop our relationship with life. As it is, it's like one of those helicopter parents who doesn't let anything external touch you, then you turn into goop once the helicopter stops patrolling.
We don't treat ourselves like humans anymore, we treat ourselves like the chickens grown at scale in industrial warehouses. And we don't even treat those chickens like chickens, it's Product all the way down.