This reminds me of a quote from the founder of a commune that I heard on a podcast that is one of my favorite things I've ever heard.
He was talking about how many potential immigrants to the commune wanted to move there in order to live in a better place but that it didn't really work that way. They needed people who understood that it wasn't a completed project ready for them to move into and just live a new life. They needed people who *wanted* to work continuously on it with no hope of it ever being "done."
Then he spoke more broadly about contemporary human society and said the thing I loved: "We need to fall in love with maintenance."
Falling in love with maintenance is my highest aspiration. Maintenance of my relationships, maintenance of my car.... and everything in between. Doesn't come naturally... otherwise we would already be in love with maintenance and the first step of falling in love wouldn't be so critical.
Great reframing, love this. I remember sitting in a class with Michel serres on la Fontaine and he described human technological history as a transition form an exoskeleton to an endoskeleton to the creation of new exoskeletons. So creative.
I’m torn between work as being, and work as transformation, but often I’m unfortunately stuck in labor
This reminds me of a quote from the founder of a commune that I heard on a podcast that is one of my favorite things I've ever heard.
He was talking about how many potential immigrants to the commune wanted to move there in order to live in a better place but that it didn't really work that way. They needed people who understood that it wasn't a completed project ready for them to move into and just live a new life. They needed people who *wanted* to work continuously on it with no hope of it ever being "done."
Then he spoke more broadly about contemporary human society and said the thing I loved: "We need to fall in love with maintenance."
Falling in love with maintenance is my highest aspiration. Maintenance of my relationships, maintenance of my car.... and everything in between. Doesn't come naturally... otherwise we would already be in love with maintenance and the first step of falling in love wouldn't be so critical.
Great reframing, love this. I remember sitting in a class with Michel serres on la Fontaine and he described human technological history as a transition form an exoskeleton to an endoskeleton to the creation of new exoskeletons. So creative.
I’m torn between work as being, and work as transformation, but often I’m unfortunately stuck in labor