This post was part of the decision making process that continues now with moving of posts from one blog location to another. Pointless busy work, it could seem. There are times when such easy work aids in thought processing. This rearranging is me making a home for ideas, streams of ideas, rooms of ideas. Many metaphors to cross...
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“I'm learning to settle for less,” I said and was admonished that I should say that I am learning to manage my expectations. Some words speak to my gut and some do not. “Renunciation” & “maintaining realistic expectations” are concepts that my mind may be able to embrace. To actually make these difficult changes I need buy-in from my gut. And that's why I invoke Settle For Less as a personal philosophy (and de-growth as a societal one).
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I am working to break my Pavlovian response to the notification bell. I seek online communications grounded in mutual respect. Small ways that I try to show respect for others' time and attention are to use hashtags meaningfully and minimally; to offer image descriptions; and to provide additional info alongside outgoing links.
An introductory post full of many things I'd now omit or write differently and some things I fully embrace like,
Signing up to share content on a non-Fediverse site is the beginning of an abusive relationship filled with nonstop, complex harassment. By making a homestead in the Fediverse I'm not only showing respect to my visitors, I'm healing myself.
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Their exhausting assault is a significant factor in alienation. We interact at all times with entities that have no feelings, no respect for us or anything but profit. Surely I’m not the only human alive who feels nothing but contempt for dozens of corporations every day.
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Capitalism isn’t just economics. It’s a mindset. No matter how much we meme that what matters is what’s inside, love, feelings, God, the sunset, or whatever, the truth is that most of us have fully absorbed the belief that if it’s not worth money it’s worthless.
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I dislike broken links. I struggle with organization. I like complexity. This post begins the prehistory of my current catch-all fediblog. I will re-upload posts from two other fediverse blog spaces that I now wish were here.