No More Urgency pt. 1
Thoughts on Emptiness and Importance
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” — Susan Sontag
In conversations with friends, colleagues, and the general vibe in the media is that a lot of us feel a deep tiredness, an emptiness about life.When I consider the trend of “quiet quitting” and the Great Resignation, I think it’s true. I think Beyoncé pretending to be middle-class in her newest single isn’t a coincidence.
A moment in these conversations comes to mind: “there is no more urgency. It doesn’t exist.”
I notice a rejection to anything being defined as urgent any more; it is simply impossible to believe that such a state of things is true or accurate.
I believe this quote gives some insight as to how we arrived here.
We are in a state of withering. Watching the world collapse in numerous ways for the past few years has taken its toll on a lot of people to the point that apathy has become a pragmatism. Our compassion has been played out.
This is not a painless way of living. I will assert that nobody wants to live like this, and a withered soul can’t bear much.
So what is to be done?
More soon,
Trevor