• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    decades ago, as a young anti-consumerist, i was very interested in mystic traditions, eastern thought, and general spirituality as a method to soothe my anxious mind and perhaps, glimpse something eternal, in the ephemeral bankrupt culture i found myself within.

    years later, i was disheartened to see the recuperation of these notions into language of capitalist commodities and the associated milieu of personal branding and careerism.

    i want to believe this clown has reached the summit by creating the hashtag #CryptoMeditations

    “I Want Bitcoin. I Do Bitcoin. I Am Bitcoin. Om”

    • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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      3 years ago

      I have been trying to get into meditation for a while and having to weed through all the shit about using meditation to become better at like day trading and shit is not just time consuming but deeply depressing.

      Ime meditation has such potential for true liberation that seeing it be commondified and used for stuff like becoming a more productive worker is so depressing