Speaker 1: Uh, it could happen. It could happen here. That was
Speaker 1: my Robert Evans impression. Thank you very much. Hopefully that
Speaker 1: wasn't an assault in you um drums. But here we
Speaker 1: are here, we are I am Andrew, and this is
Speaker 1: it could happen here. And this is the podcast where
Speaker 1: we talk about stuff that happened in places. And I'll
Speaker 1: be yes listening this episode. This is the Andrewism segment
Speaker 1: where I talk about whatever comes to mind. So I'd
Speaker 1: like to open up this episode with a question, honestly, genuinely,
Speaker 1: how are you all doing? Well? There's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on right now. Um, you know, not not
Speaker 1: the best time um inside this country or really around
Speaker 1: the world. Um so yeah, not, I would say, not ideal. Not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm everything bad is happening and also being compounded that
Speaker 1: I have been. I have been once again awoken at
Speaker 1: it a genuinely egregiously early hour by someone pounding a
Speaker 1: hammer about eight inches from my head, which is fun
Speaker 1: and good and cool without context, without context, all a
Speaker 1: wild thing to say. I am giving no context about that.
Speaker 1: This is literally true. So yeah, basically it's like that,
Speaker 1: but for everything, yeah, I respect that not ideal is
Speaker 1: the perfect explanation. Yeah, yeah, not ideal, Not ideal. Personally,
Speaker 1: I feel like i'm, you know, cost being pulled in
Speaker 1: a bunch of different directions and it's exhausted. And I mean,
Speaker 1: let's say up front, I do have the privilege of
Speaker 1: having more control over my wealth day than a lot
Speaker 1: of other people do. And that's not something I take lightly.
Speaker 1: I'm very appreciative of that. UM shout out to my
Speaker 1: Patreon supporters. But you know, between all my online responsibilities
Speaker 1: and offline responsibilities and obligations and demands and my time,
Speaker 1: it really is not easy. And that's not even getting
Speaker 1: into like the social and political stitt to the world
Speaker 1: right now. It's a coach and Smith, you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's something I think we can all relate to on
Speaker 1: some level. Yeah, I mean, some weeks are much harder
Speaker 1: than others. But the through line has been stress, and
Speaker 1: that is the subject of today's episode. That's so stressful
Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about stressful. Yeah, a discussion
Speaker 1: about stress. It really could happen here. Um. Stress is
Speaker 1: not something that's new to me already to most people
Speaker 1: me personally, my personality is very much lending itself to
Speaker 1: that um sort of outcome because I'm constantly like spinning
Speaker 1: a bunch of plates at the same time, and every
Speaker 1: time like I dropped one or I put one down,
Speaker 1: I pick up the next one. And I'm not very
Speaker 1: good at relaxing usually. All right, I've basically been going
Speaker 1: on stop for a long long time. And I'm not
Speaker 1: alone because of adults suffer from chronic stress, and sevent
Speaker 1: to night to percent of doctors visits are stress related.
Speaker 1: And it's trash. You know, you feel it in your
Speaker 1: skin and your muscle, in your bones. I remember this
Speaker 1: one someone was working at that same winery I was
Speaker 1: talking about in recent episode. I was in UM and
Speaker 1: I was just sharing my experience. It really felt like
Speaker 1: my blood was running into water, like I was barely eaten.
Speaker 1: It wasn't getting enough water. I wasn't perfectly hydrated and
Speaker 1: just go in. We call that. We call that a
Speaker 1: reverse Jesus when you're when you're I mean, I think
Speaker 1: when Jesus was stabbed, he did like bleed water for
Speaker 1: some reason. Sure it did. Yeah, tree rings, you know,
Speaker 1: they tell a story, and I think our body is
Speaker 1: tell the story as well, and for a lot of
Speaker 1: us that story is stress rather because of events or
Speaker 1: thoughts or circumstances, but it's frustration and go new business,
Speaker 1: do you mistress? What would you guys say, is some
Speaker 1: of your like mean stress triggers. I was going to
Speaker 1: say family, most of it's probably work related, based on
Speaker 1: the type of things I surround myself with for over
Speaker 1: twelve hours a day. Yeah, I think for me it's
Speaker 1: it's work. And then it's a lot of just sort
Speaker 1: of like personal life stuff. I have to do stuff
Speaker 1: which is just like like I'm trying to move right now,
Speaker 1: and that's like incredibly stressful. And yeah, as medical stuff,
Speaker 1: that's been a that's been a holy hell. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: are excited that Chris is finally moving out of the
Speaker 1: hammer factory into the into the into the electric drill factory.
Speaker 1: So the audio will still be a bit weird. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: if if if it's if it's anything like college, it'll
Speaker 1: be twelve hours a day of a guy with a
Speaker 1: jackhammer directly below my window, which you'll all get to
Speaker 1: hear an incredibly large amount of It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. That's a perfect encopsulation, and that the exactly
Speaker 1: the topic we're talking about. It's like a jackhammer on
Speaker 1: your brain constantly. I mean that's on the only form
Speaker 1: of stress. I mean, there's a stress that comes from
Speaker 1: like loss stress, it comes from like social drift stress.
Speaker 1: It comes from this consumers rat race um, you know,
Speaker 1: mental illness, just general uncertainty and change and grief and
Speaker 1: guilt and trauma. Um. You know, dictatorship that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are subject to. And of course climate change good,
Speaker 1: it will climate change. I think more more people need
Speaker 1: to realize there was a stress is a symptom of
Speaker 1: like systemic violence. You know, when we're dealing with these
Speaker 1: headaches and sleep problems and muscle pinions and digestive problems
Speaker 1: and sex problems and blood pressures, use and moodliness and
Speaker 1: restlessness and demotivation and irritability and substance abuse and all
Speaker 1: these other responses and consequences. It's just the outcome of
Speaker 1: daily systemic violence, of the way that this system deprives
Speaker 1: us of support and care, that how it atomizes us,
Speaker 1: how it controls us and really squeezes us forward word.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not to say that like there's no
Speaker 1: stress outside of capitalism, or that stress is a capitless invention.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I mean, stress in um small doses to
Speaker 1: be a good indicator in certains vibal situations that need
Speaker 1: to change the situation um motivation to act, you know.
Speaker 1: But and the capitalism is really pathological, and yet you
Speaker 1: gotta keep playing normal. You have to keep on pretending
Speaker 1: that everything is okay. I mean, we all know how
Speaker 1: deeply unhealthy this society is, how deeply and equalist society is.
Speaker 1: Many people dealing stress related illnesses are people don't like
Speaker 1: hyper vigilance are We are constantly scanning this urban jungle
Speaker 1: for threats, for of of insecurity and decimation of public
Speaker 1: life and of entire equalmies in sectors. And it's like
Speaker 1: well held in captivity. I will say one thing, and
Speaker 1: that is that while capitalism produces a lot of stress,
Speaker 1: it was so alleviates stress by producing an economy organized
Speaker 1: around the production and circulation of addictive substances and practices
Speaker 1: of all these different vices that you know, people pick up.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the roots of capitalism
Speaker 1: and how capitalism really funded itself initially through the plantation
Speaker 1: economies and the Caribbean and the rest of America's um,
Speaker 1: you know, growing like sugar and tobacco and you know,
Speaker 1: producing all these spirits and chocolate and coffee. The thing
Speaker 1: that that that that helped bring capitalism to fruition and
Speaker 1: helped fund industrial capitalism is the thing that people are
Speaker 1: using to self medicate in response the effects of the
Speaker 1: now global capitalist dominance. And people love off their chocolate
Speaker 1: and their coffee. Personally, I'm not a big fan of coffee.
Speaker 1: I think it's tastes disgusting. But yeah, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I tried it once and it was like it tastes
Speaker 1: like the sensation of burning. You know, I just wasn't
Speaker 1: having it. I like the smell for some reason, like
Speaker 1: the smell of coffee beans, but the actual taste is
Speaker 1: like nah, and surprised. I mean, I actually used to
Speaker 1: not like chocolate as a child. It is only when
Speaker 1: I matured my taste, but that actually came around to it, ironically,
Speaker 1: And of course we don't think of these things as
Speaker 1: you know, vices or medications, but they're like small pleasures
Speaker 1: that help us get through our day. Practically everybody is
Speaker 1: at some level of alcoholic these days. And of course
Speaker 1: there's social media, which is like algorithmically Teelered and tuned
Speaker 1: to keep us on it, to keep us like it
Speaker 1: basically like like a puppet master controls the highs and
Speaker 1: lows of all emotions on a deally basis. It basically
Speaker 1: functions as an addictive drug. It just the drug is
Speaker 1: just is caused by chemical reactions in your own brain,
Speaker 1: but it's manipulating your brain into causing it to happen UM.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a very similar addictive process that has like,
Speaker 1: you know, a reward system. You know that. That's why,
Speaker 1: like around a decade ago, a lot of social media
Speaker 1: companies changed their UM loading style to be like you
Speaker 1: like scroll it down and it flicks back up, which
Speaker 1: was specifically it was specifically copying a slot machine because
Speaker 1: it is it's it's like an addictive pattern that's ingrained
Speaker 1: into what we find pleasurable. So it's it's all like
Speaker 1: none of this is this probably isn't new information to
Speaker 1: a lot of people, but like it's all obviously very
Speaker 1: intentional to why it's designed to be extremely addictive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this this is just like this is just like
Speaker 1: what like most of gaming is now too, where it's
Speaker 1: like I mean, okay, like you're playing a video game, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but like yeah, and now and now literally like the
Speaker 1: the the revenue model of the gaming industry is selling
Speaker 1: gambling to children, you know that. That is My one
Speaker 1: complained about casinos is that eight year olds couldn't spend
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars with their parents money on skins. You know. Now,
Speaker 1: thanks thanks to the wonders of gaming, eight year olds
Speaker 1: too can basically just live in a casino in their
Speaker 1: own bedroom all the time. Modern society. Okay, there's there's
Speaker 1: there's conflicting accounts about this, but there's there's a new
Speaker 1: like free to play Dio Diablo game, and well, yes
Speaker 1: I heard about that. The amount of money it would
Speaker 1: take to get like a max level character in this
Speaker 1: game I have seen. Okay, I I've I've The latest
Speaker 1: calculation I've seen is saying it would take over five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. The lowest range calculation of how much it
Speaker 1: would cost I've seen was about fifty tho it's probably
Speaker 1: at least a hundred thousand dollars to literally get the
Speaker 1: guys level character in these games. It is like, like
Speaker 1: this is problem. Where that's problem is exactly why, um,
Speaker 1: the only mobile games I play us to do a
Speaker 1: goog on mine. Yeah, and even those have ads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did have a brief for it until among us,
Speaker 1: but that, um, that period has has ended. And plus
Speaker 1: this is also why I tend to you know, sail
Speaker 1: the high seats as you know what I'm saying. The
Speaker 1: funny thing is that we don't have to do this.
Speaker 1: And I mean it's kind of obvious. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like it's a phrase looking forward, like it doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be said, but it was a kind of needs
Speaker 1: to be said. That we built. We built this society
Speaker 1: and as people within it, we do have the power
Speaker 1: to change it. We don't have to work as much
Speaker 1: as we do. We don't have to you know, structure
Speaker 1: and attend school the way that we do. I mean
Speaker 1: even under capitalism, there there are people who are starting
Speaker 1: to shift from that eight hour week day, which we
Speaker 1: had to fight for a lot of people died for, um,
Speaker 1: to you know, three to six hours a day, which
Speaker 1: or four hours pertty, it depends. Um. I think that
Speaker 1: some one on experiment was like six hour days, four
Speaker 1: days a week or something like that. But despite you know,
Speaker 1: studies coming out and saying that humans groling be is
Speaker 1: super productive in a certain period of time uninterrupted. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, you know, despite the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: productivity decreases, it's not like productivity rises and amount to
Speaker 1: hours you work. It doesn't matter. I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: when I was working in a um an insurance company.
Speaker 1: I was people pusher, just like scanning documents and uploading
Speaker 1: documents and then scanning some more documents and then uploading
Speaker 1: those documents, and then every once in a while I
Speaker 1: got to print documents. Exciting um but I was dealing
Speaker 1: with like a backlog of documents, and I was typically
Speaker 1: able to get like a decent chunk of the work
Speaker 1: done within like the first two to three hours, as
Speaker 1: in like having it fully sorted, scanned, uploaded, completed, you know.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately I had to be there for eight hours,
Speaker 1: and so I had to drag out my day, you know,
Speaker 1: typically by listening to like the Communist Manifesto an audiobook, yeah,
Speaker 1: or The Conquest of Bad and audiobook. I had to
Speaker 1: find things to do, is like make myself look busy,
Speaker 1: um what to like divvy up my tasks and extend
Speaker 1: them and spartificial they stretched them out because instead of
Speaker 1: doing this BS job, instead of not doing this B
Speaker 1: S job at all. Well, instead of doing this b
Speaker 1: S job based on tasks completed rather than time spent,
Speaker 1: I had to rely on the time spent in the
Speaker 1: contractual I was And of course the pay was terrible,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's expected at this point. But the
Speaker 1: whole point is really to like squeeze all our time
Speaker 1: and energy, so that's we're stressed out so that we
Speaker 1: don't have any leisure, so that you know, we look
Speaker 1: for convenience, and convenience is profitable. I mean, who really
Speaker 1: has the energy to fight for their rights when they
Speaker 1: don't even have the energy to cook a meal when
Speaker 1: they get home, you know. And it wasn't always like this.
Speaker 1: The social bond was broken by capitalism and replaced with
Speaker 1: the on to money and until we like sever that bond,
Speaker 1: nothing's going to change. The question is how can we
Speaker 1: address stress? Right, and so capitalism has an answer, um,
Speaker 1: And then there's like an actual proper real systemic and
Speaker 1: so increasing the ideal was stressed by just not thinking
Speaker 1: about it, um. But I mean, what what do you
Speaker 1: guys do be really sad? I'm talking about like like
Speaker 1: mitigation strategies, you know, Like I don't know, like when
Speaker 1: it's nice. Like I go take walks, um walks are nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a have a shark that I got from
Speaker 1: somewhere that's like it's like the like the Squacy phone material,
Speaker 1: just a shark. It rules. Do you have an idea shark? No? No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, it's ok. It's all right. It's like
Speaker 1: stall but about to just like, yeah, that's very funny.
Speaker 1: I don't have a whatever that I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say it either. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to get back into doing more park
Speaker 1: or training when I'm stressed, But honestly, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the time I just do stuff that I know
Speaker 1: I am capable of, which oftentimes is the same things
Speaker 1: that kind of caused me to get stressed in the
Speaker 1: first place. Looking at nonsense propaganda, writing about it um,
Speaker 1: writing about like different like philosophies around Dumerism and like
Speaker 1: because those are things I just my my brain can
Speaker 1: just do with little efforts. So it's almost it's almost
Speaker 1: peaceful in a way. Yeah, it's it's it's bizarre. I mean,
Speaker 1: in some ways you would think that these things are
Speaker 1: what's causing me to have problems but also in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways that kind of calms me down, Um,
Speaker 1: to look at a whole bunch of this type of thing,
Speaker 1: or to write about it, or to like try to
Speaker 1: like you know, just do like formatting inside like a
Speaker 1: Google doc about it. Um. I don't know. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like sorting out the stuff. It's almost like there's
Speaker 1: this idea. This is like um thing called knowling. It's
Speaker 1: when you get a whole bunch of stuff out on
Speaker 1: the floor and you sort of into piles. It's done
Speaker 1: with like Lego a lot if you dump a giant
Speaker 1: like box of Lego for all these different legal pieces. Um,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna annull them, you're gonna take all the
Speaker 1: pieces that are like the same color or size and
Speaker 1: sort them into their little places. It's it's it's so
Speaker 1: it's I kind of do that but with like ideas,
Speaker 1: um and like with and like with writing projects, I
Speaker 1: dump out all the things I'm currently thinking about into
Speaker 1: like a spreadsheet or Google doc and sort them into
Speaker 1: related topics to be like, Okay, here's how this thing
Speaker 1: leads into this thing. And I just I it's like
Speaker 1: that kind of like organizational thing. Um. So like like
Speaker 1: how organizing is kind of like a therapeutic then, so
Speaker 1: it's like I can do that with all of the
Speaker 1: random stuff floating around in my brain. Sometimes I'll try
Speaker 1: to like just sort of out. Even if it doesn't
Speaker 1: get turned into like a work project, it's still like
Speaker 1: it's like an external way to sort out my thoughts, right, Suphie.
Speaker 1: I have a dog, very good dog. A dog. We
Speaker 1: listen to music. We go outside, well, like to go
Speaker 1: to the park and listen to music outside. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the basic. I work a lot, but work is
Speaker 1: also like if I don't work, I'm more stressed exactly exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely I relate to that, which is like a
Speaker 1: lapdog for Cole. I know, right, it's not something that
Speaker 1: like proud of, but also like, you know, I'm lucky enough.
Speaker 1: Nothing that's indicative of the problem, right, Like it's not
Speaker 1: like people don't necessarily like to wooh do necessarily like
Speaker 1: to leave? Yes, she was like not having what's one
Speaker 1: to me? You know, because I mean if most of
Speaker 1: the things I do for work now are things that
Speaker 1: I've been doing for years unpaid because I was just
Speaker 1: interested in them. So you know, if we're talking about
Speaker 1: theorizing about like a post work world. Yeah, people are
Speaker 1: still going to do all kinds of ship. Obviously, there's
Speaker 1: questions around you know, tasks which are not like not
Speaker 1: the most fun to do, as we've had discussions on
Speaker 1: like antiwork stuff before. But for a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: everyone has little interests in little skills that they find
Speaker 1: kind of slightly therapeutic. And also like you know, it's
Speaker 1: in terms of tasks that no one wants to do,
Speaker 1: like I fixed my own plumbing in my bathtub a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago because my landlord's not going to do that.
Speaker 1: So like you know, people when you when when you
Speaker 1: have to do something, you kind of become capable of it.
Speaker 1: That's fair. I think one of the most popular responses,
Speaker 1: like the stresses, acomplism and pooses, is like this concept
Speaker 1: of self care, you know, this way of keeping from
Speaker 1: the grind of it all and sure dealing with you know,
Speaker 1: with issues by like getting to bed early and eating
Speaker 1: well and physical exercise which I've been doing a lots
Speaker 1: of um and and all that. We'd have to change
Speaker 1: your little drug into like into like the chat version.
Speaker 1: Well I actually did that recently. That's great. Yeah, it's definitely.
Speaker 1: You know this thing also things like like joran and
Speaker 1: meditation and yoka and all that jazz. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: never really got into meditation because I tried it a
Speaker 1: couple of times and every time I do, I kind
Speaker 1: of fall asleep. I definitely do some meditation stuff. Um.
Speaker 1: But that's what's kind of slightly part of my like
Speaker 1: metaphysics interest, UM. And I mean also mean in terms
Speaker 1: of like self care practices in that vein that can
Speaker 1: help you kind of relax is obviously stuff like you know,
Speaker 1: mushrooms are m D M A, which if done and
Speaker 1: you know proper, you know, it's space spaced out, not
Speaker 1: not doing them all the time, but doing them at
Speaker 1: certain intervals, um, can definitely be be therapeuticum in their
Speaker 1: own way. Audrey Lord, one of the foremost Black Finer
Speaker 1: scholars of our time. One set and I returned to
Speaker 1: the school to lot um. Caring for myself is not
Speaker 1: an act of self intelligence. It is self preservation, and
Speaker 1: that is an active political warfare. Self care used to
Speaker 1: me in presuming yourself in a world hostiles are very
Speaker 1: identity community. We have life event not we give yourself
Speaker 1: to an early grieve, you know, practicingcy and new and
Speaker 1: be mindful of your sensitivities and triggers. And then you know,
Speaker 1: as white corporate feminism does, White corporate feminism appropriated it
Speaker 1: and turn it into a industry now worth a start
Speaker 1: and eleven billion dollars. Yeah, I mean now self care.
Speaker 1: When people think of self care, it's all about intelligent
Speaker 1: cosmetics and like serious bodies and overpriced candles and quintin
Speaker 1: expensive qualities and subscriptions to social media apps that are
Speaker 1: about like and it's it's turned into this own like
Speaker 1: grifting industry almost like that, the self care industry. It's
Speaker 1: like self care influencers and self care content creators and
Speaker 1: like it's just like it. It just gets It gets
Speaker 1: the same icky de realization feeling that everything else under
Speaker 1: capitalism is slowly getting. Yeah. I mean they even have
Speaker 1: like their own self care funds, like if you not.
Speaker 1: Just a lot of self care content has a very
Speaker 1: specific visual style. Yeah, you know, I mean hashtog, self
Speaker 1: can Instagram just like a bottomless screwl of graphics and products.
Speaker 1: It just makes me feel kind of unsettled. It kind
Speaker 1: of has this like uncanny aspect to it. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's almost of self care is unaccessible to the wise.
Speaker 1: It was creepy to help the moves. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's there's that. I mean, the fundamental part of
Speaker 1: the uncanny is that is that disconnect where the gap
Speaker 1: between the phenomenon and the thing is really is really big.
Speaker 1: And you can't really understand why it's uncanny, but if
Speaker 1: you think about it, it's because that gap between the
Speaker 1: thing what's supposed to be doing is so large. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this thing that's supposed to help all these people is
Speaker 1: now of white millennial like like up like middle upper
Speaker 1: class like aesthetic. Now, um, and that sucks exactly. I
Speaker 1: mean these days the people like it's mostly a salve
Speaker 1: for like white collar ucas whose jobs are also stucked
Speaker 1: them with their time managing creativity. But the people who
Speaker 1: are actually in the blue collar workers, they often have
Speaker 1: the time or money to be able to invest in themselves,
Speaker 1: not read self care and workhollars and basically two sides
Speaker 1: of the same coin. Right, it's preserve yourself so you
Speaker 1: can produce small it's a solution to capitalism. Within capitalism,
Speaker 1: the solution doesn't actually alleviate the conditions and stress, but
Speaker 1: lines pockets and fuels the economic system that creates it
Speaker 1: in the first place. I mean, if you're selling self
Speaker 1: care helps that you've got a constant supply of customers
Speaker 1: living in perpetual anxiety and wellness. Rather than means of
Speaker 1: resistance to the system. It's been weaponized by the system.
Speaker 1: It's become this performative thing we put on, this image
Speaker 1: of put togetherness where you carefully curate your feed and
Speaker 1: your Instagram stories in your highlights, and as an individualized
Speaker 1: solution systemic issues is it's like the system turning to
Speaker 1: calm down. Why I continue to denegrate and and exploit you.
Speaker 1: None of these things address stress systematically. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that it's necessarily bad to address stress individually, because everybody
Speaker 1: has their own personal conditions, but without dealing with the
Speaker 1: broader material conditions, without addressing people's lack of free time,
Speaker 1: lack of access to social connection, lack of access to
Speaker 1: housing and healthy food, and full of medical care, you
Speaker 1: know it, it misses the point. And I haven't I
Speaker 1: haven't read much um in the field of I believe
Speaker 1: there are some articles spend a lot of time writing
Speaker 1: and talking about it, but I haven't read much in
Speaker 1: the field of like psychotherapy and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But it's it's kind of a realization of me that
Speaker 1: therapy is basically focus in on fixing an individuals would
Speaker 1: a just to a sick society, rather than healing the
Speaker 1: society itself. Fixing the society itself. I mean, so much
Speaker 1: about their therapy is about, you know, addressing things that
Speaker 1: are impairing your functionality to complete your work. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: it's it's all the base of mental healthness is is
Speaker 1: it inhibiting you from doing your job? And that's when
Speaker 1: it becomes a problem and the only way to solve
Speaker 1: it is through it. Like, like what what deems a
Speaker 1: success is if you're able to complete your job at
Speaker 1: a high level of functioning. Again, it's not actually about
Speaker 1: your mental state, it's about how much you can produce
Speaker 1: such of the capitalist framework. Yeah, and I mean not
Speaker 1: to say that that medication is and how a tremendous
Speaker 1: benefits in people's lives and you know, helping them get
Speaker 1: back on track and so he can true the circumstances is,
Speaker 1: but you know, when you have a society that has
Speaker 1: distress and misery and loneliness woven into it um into
Speaker 1: its core, trying to adjust people and adapt people to
Speaker 1: that is just responding to sickness and more sickness. And
Speaker 1: you know me, I like to try and keep things
Speaker 1: on the practical, um helpful, positive side. You know, it
Speaker 1: could happen here genuinely with a smiling face, you know,
Speaker 1: like it could happen here. UM. And so I just
Speaker 1: wanted to put forward some recommendations. I guess, um. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we can't afford to wait until capitalism has been
Speaker 1: abolished to be happy. That's just ridiculous. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: long term cure for a lot of the moralities and
Speaker 1: and it's us their face in um. But meantime, when
Speaker 1: assigned the roots of our stress in these systems can
Speaker 1: make the personal political and drive us to act and
Speaker 1: connect with people who can support us. I think that
Speaker 1: in organizing spaces they need to be special attention but
Speaker 1: towards creating support groups that have allowed for solidarity to
Speaker 1: be built, you know, allow of people to share their
Speaker 1: feelings and work through the challenges together. Self care kind
Speaker 1: of frames things in a way that makes it seem
Speaker 1: as though healing has done on an individual level, when
Speaker 1: healing is communal, Like you don't have to go through
Speaker 1: all this alone healing. It's an act of communion and
Speaker 1: the world must be forced to change to reflect that,
Speaker 1: recognize that we have each other, and recognize that self
Speaker 1: care and community care and extricably linked. And once those
Speaker 1: facts at the forefront, once we put community care at
Speaker 1: the forefront, outside of the close of the market, accessible
Speaker 1: to all um, I think we can find hoope, you know,
Speaker 1: and it really it can start with something as simple
Speaker 1: as just reaching out, you know, um, grabbing groceries or
Speaker 1: twin dishes or watching kids. All the care work that
Speaker 1: is stept to the side when we think about organizing
Speaker 1: what it means to organize, but with an your home,
Speaker 1: on your neighborhood, or at work or at school, because
Speaker 1: I think in especially neighborhood settings, developing that sense of
Speaker 1: new bliness consideringly help even something like a community garden
Speaker 1: being able to connect with nature again or at all
Speaker 1: for the first time, you can really help life heard,
Speaker 1: and we don't have to make it harder for each other.
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