achievement society

Day 314 of 1000: Positive Disintegration and the Neutral Zone

In a personal transition, the neutral zone is a time of disorientation. Applying Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration to this concept.

Philosopher Agnes Callard contrasts ambition and aspiration. Ambition seeks understood goals. Aspiration seeks new values.

Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.

On Eckhart and Heidegger’s concepts of releasement, and what it means in an extremely online era. How recklessness relates to releasement.

Replacing surface-level interactions with deep engagement. Quitting Twitter and Reddit. Living the vita contemplativa and vita amativa instead.

Living in the achievement society of late modern life, how do you find meaning? Going beyond ambition, achievement, and affluence.

What would it look like to put down my ambitions for myself? On the culture of affluence and achievement (and ambition)