slow living is NOT a capitalist 'trend'...
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Pierre Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, 1892.
Dawn Foster, Lean Out, 2015.
Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness, 1935.
As I mentionned in the video, anarchism has a lot of values in common with the concept of slow living so I'd recommend you check @Andrewism channel if you want to learn more about it!
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slow living feels like it prioritizes living for enjoyment rather than for accomplishments, there is a time and place for big goals and productivity but it shouldn’t be all we live for
Enjoyment, but also engagement? It doesn't need to be about pleasures, but a refusal to participate in a dehumanising productivity culture.
And it's crazy to me we didn't prioritise it until now. Maybe we needed to see late-stage capitalism to fully realise.
Excellent description! ❤
As a recently disabled person (about 3 years) this is how I had to change and adapt to stay alive without well killing myself. Without being able to physically move as fast and realizing how much of the world's seemed to demand me to work or die literally wanting me dead for not only just being me now but for being disabled psychically. Now I just embraced my poor nature with my little amount of things and try to enjoy the sun. I have no more goal. I have no more plans. I just have life. And sadness. And happiness. My humanity.
Many of us enjoy accomplishments. If I woke up every morning with no purpose I would be horribly bored
In these times I always think of Ursula K Le Guin's quote: 'We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.'
Her whole national book award speech is amazing. I particularly like the closing line: We who live by writing and publishing want and should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.
So *that's* what she meant with that one story. I had a hunch she was commenting on capitalism
I just had the worst shift at my job and I'm starting to feel like a failure. Thanks to this video and this comment especially, I realize I've tied my sense of value to being a capitalist, but I'm really more of a slow living person. I have an autoimmune disease and it makes living in capitalism impossible. I hope things get better.
@@TaroLoaf Which story?
@@starry_skies the ones that walk away from omellas
I went to a business university, but it actually made me more anti-capitalist instead of more bussiness-man. The worst concept I was interoduced to was "creating needs". So you don't need something, but marketing experts trick you into thinking otherwise and bang - you just bought a product. The positive is now when I learned that I'm much less prone to such manipulations.
you can start a youtube channel to tell the world about this tricks
Thanks for sharing, this is good information to know
@@majkel2720 I've definitely heard this concept from other youtubers. But yeah, people have their own take on it and it would interesting hearing more about business education from a anti-capitalist perspective.
@@zeffery101 It felt like I was taught by Elon Musk fans posing as serious adults. Productivity obsession, scheduling every single minute of your day, working hard - hustle culture. Great way to become a hollow shell of a human being. Everyone can become rich type of vibe. Older professors were more professional and down to earth.
I hated corporate ethics subject in Business school because at end of lesson we would be told ethics are not always about legal stuff and not about morals••• so yeah we know what ethics is!!
That is very interesting, I have been slow living for years now. All of my friends and family denigrate me for my laissez-faire attitude, taking long walks in the woods, living in the moment, rather than keeping up with their expectations of me killing myself by climbing the corporate ladder and becoming rich. Never liked Capitalism, never liked Hustle culture, never felt that money and productivity made me happy. People spend their entire lives killing time to get to a point when they are old and grey before finally slowing down and appreciating all the things they missed, I dont want to do that, I want to experience life here and now
Ugh. I work in a corporate environment and there is so much emphasis on "what do you want to do next, what role are you going to aim for" -- I enjoy the role I am in and I earn enough to pay for the things I enjoy (sewing, baking, growing plants). Does everybody *have * to be ambitious, grind, hustle hustle hustle?
Living that right now, and searching the balance between fullfiling those expectesions of being succesfull for the society and enjoying the experience of being alive, I've been thinking all my life about having the enonomical means to aford living in a peaceful place.
thats incredible love that
Tell me you have rich parents without telling that you have rich parents.
Yep, most everyday people really are just stupid brainwashed sheep... Good on you for waking up! Remember, you may be too far ahead of your time for normies around you to wrap their minds around, but more and more people will keep getting hip 😎
A couple weeks ago I saw a tumblr post about how much work living off the land is. I grew up in poverty with eight siblings in the country. Every spring we would plant a garden and tend to it until winter. We’d can and freeze as many vegetables as we could. We also raised chickens and turkeys and we’d butcher them and freeze that as well. We had berry bushes, grapes, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries. Keeping up on all of this was a lot of work. Every day we picked strawberries, peas, tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, or berries depending on what was in season. Everyday we fed the chickens and turkeys twice. My dad still had ten hours work days, most times six days a week. On top of this we had the normal housework which, if you have more than two siblings, you know is a fucking lot to keep after. I am grateful to have grown up gardening and living with lots of space to play in when I had time. My point is that slow living is not a countryside lifestyle. Slow living is community lifestyle, or a lifestyle where you plenty of make money easily. Living off the land is fucking hard work and making enough money to provide for a family is fucking hard work. We need communities that support everyone inside the community in every way, not just weekly gatherings. Where we share land and food and watch over each others’ loved ones and work together. Reading the book Work by James Suzman really helped me see community and work in a whole new light
I loved your comment! It is very true. My mom is an immigrant that grew up in a poor farmer family and had to basically do child labor for all the work to be done. Farm life is heavily romanticised nowadays and influencers are not transparent about the fact that NOT everyone can do that. You need to have passive income or at least a home office side hustle so that you can do your gardening for fun and not full time. Also you have no chance living on the countryside when you are ill/disabled and have no family or community to support you there.
It is nice to want to connect to nature and to do meaningful work with your bare hands but it does not mesh well with our individualistic and lone wolf mindset + lifestyles.
Convenience can be a trap
No pity for people who CHOOSE to start a family and struggle because of it
@@TheFarebanksTroll where did this person ask for pity?
@@TheFarebanksTroll I am child-free by choice and still think your comment is uncalled for. Children are a lot of work and all parents struggle in some way, even if it isn't obvious to outsiders, but obviously if the human race wishes to self perpetuate (which it obviously does), what alternative is there? Do you have any pity for your own parents' struggles?
When I was in university, I read a book called "Travailler deux heures par jour" (working two hours a day), from the 70s. It calculated that if we shared equally the necessary and unpleasant toil, we could all "work" only 2 hours a day. Then do whatever we want the rest of the time, including unconstrained productive stuff. I probably read it just at the right time, being lost as a student, having no idea where my life was going.
Then I discovered the whole "décroissance" (degrowth) movement, which confirmed that our work-centered society was neither good nor sustainable. The "slow" trend never clicked with me, though. I think it seemes more centered on individual choices, and much less political, while the décroissance aimed to question our whole unsustainable way of life in a rich country, exhausting ressources, disturbing the climate, and making us depressed on the way.
Since then I've tried to find the right balance between work and freedom. It seems that people are questionning work more and more, and as the government tries to postpone the age of retirement, the topic is hotter than ever.
On the flip side, what would happen to the GDP if this change were made? How would this impact your country's national security in the long run? Would such a lifestyle be sustainable with malicious foreign actors in the long run?
Probably not, your country would probably just get crushed and you'd all get forced to work in even harsher conditions by some foreign despot in the end anyway. These kinds of ideologies tend to be so concerned about sustainability in terms of natural forces but the more immediate and significant threat to a sustainable way of life will always be other people.
@@GenSignups All those questions need to be adressed anyway. If we keep things the way are right now, we'll soon have to deal with a huge climate problem, with areas of the globe becoming unlivable, entire populations forced to move, ecological, social, economical and political unstability, etc.
Doing nothing against climate change will just make every single problem worse.
@@aggagg I don't think the long-term consequences of climate change are very clear right now but for now, let's just assume it will be as bad as you say. It won't be 'soon' and I'm pretty sure the aforementioned unnamed 'other people' could ruin your country and way of life much faster than climate change so that still takes priority.
I also don't think that 'nothing' is being done right now about climate change. Compare now to 1980, for example, and you'll see how many more innovations were made precisely to cater to climate-conscious consumers. At the end of the day, capitalism is the best system for identifying demands and then supplying them in the most efficient way possible. Then people vote with their wallets on how much should be done about certain issues which I think is the most morally just method of action as opposed to, for example, government-forced action.
These innovations, perhaps, may not have even been possible if everyone worked 2 days a week and lived a 'slow life'. Most likely, you would be conquered militarily or economically by some other party that simply works harder. It's just the prisoner's dilemma repackaged on a global scale with the added spice of the existence of ('functional') psychopaths in the mix.
@@GenSignups I think you’re really underestimating the upcoming ravages of climate change in a near future, and are completely wrong about capitalism being a possible solution while it actually is the root of the problem.
But I guess we’ll find out for ourselves soon enough.
@@aggagg Capitalism can be the root of the problem or the solution, it depends on consumer demand; capitalism is simply a tool that is steered by the people. We'll be long dead before we'd get a chance to find out the end result of all this anyway.
I was raised in small village in a farming family. I used to joke when I lived abroad and in big cities that when I finally snap I will move to the countryside again. Now at 24 I have returned not because I snapped per say but realised I just never fit in to the busy competitive environment. I spent a good chunk of my life envying the ones who naturally thrive there and felt like a complete isolated loser. I had the choice during the pandemic to reevaluate and start new. I up and left and feel immense gratitude. I feel at home in a small community helping elderly and kids, studying for a higher level of education so I can give back more. I never would have had this energy and motivation in the wrong environment to better myself for others.
Where are you from?
@@willj5760 little general but Nordic Countries
I don't live to work. Two years ago I reduced my working hours to 3 days. I was mentally exhausted, I felt like I'm constantly at work. Come Sunday afternoon, I was already thinking that the next day I will be back at work.
I understand people are ambitious and want to have a successful career, but this is not for me. Yes, I earn less, but mental comfort has no price.
Agreed!! I feel the same after my 5-year battle with chronic illness. Its not worth sacrificing our health for work.
What line of work are you in because I'm trying to get to 3 days a week too?
@@unexaminedlife6130 I personally went from teaching full-time to being a substitute teacher assistant. Less stress than being the lead teacher. Stress flares my disease. And i get to work 4 hour shifts instead of 8 when needed (half days). I choose my own days and hours I work. Its perfect.
@@unexaminedlife6130 Entry level corporate office work. I like this easy job that I don't take home. But it does get boring and repetitive.
I also love with a chronic illness and changing my career and reducing my work days/hours has helped immensely. May you be well!
I was a university professor for 5+ years, quit when I got pregnant. Became a freelance writer when my daughter was about a year old. I hustled. Worked with as many clients as I could. Published a book. Created a course. I lived that CEO life where I woke up at 4am, read a book, did my exercise... All of these while taking care of my daughter. It was financially rewarding but so incredibly physically draining. I broke down one day. Told my husband I needed to slow down. Let go of my clients except for one. Slept in until 10am. Lived a laid back lifestyle. I got pregnant with my second child and now have a 5 month old. I love my life. The hustle culture took me away from motherhood, which is really the one thing I genuinely enjoy.
Husband still works all the hours satan sends him then ?
@@parallaxview6770 my husband works his normal hours, I earn 2.5x more than him. Our combined income was cut by ~30% but we're doing more than okay.
@@jdmecarr Would make more sense for you to stay working and him be the house husband but im guessing you prefer him to work whilst you are looked after
Maybe your husband should have help you taking care of his daughter...
@@sweetpoptart9486 oh my husband is a very hands on with the kids! I guess I got my wording wrong with "my daughter".
i personally differentiate between money work versus life work. i want to do things, be creative, help others. the problem is that money work often does not align with these goals. if i could just volunteer for political organizations and campaigns forever i would work 50+ hrs a week, but that doesn't pay the bills because it is not considered valued by capitalism. really loved this video!!
Well yeah, politics is not a profitable business. No one wants to do business that involves politics and serving society. That's what governments are for.
@@sucram1018 With how often politicians get gigantic bribes from lobbyists, I'd say politics is quite profitable.
There will always be toil that is sometimes tedious, even when we're producing things and ideas we greatly believe in. I edited a leftist newspaper for 21 years and loved the results of each issue getting out. It was done purely for aesthetics and to further leftist views the corporate media ignored.
Nonetheless, it could be very burdensome and at times frustrating. I kept my mind on the end product, a monthly permanent chronicling of radical progressive interpreting of events.
The concept of “life work” just changed my whole life thank you 🙏
It's all work but only part of it is paid labour. And it's only the last one that is (at the moment) visible to governments en businesses. And when you make your decisions with only part of your total value visible, it's obvious there will be some weird choices made by those in charge of organising things.
I used to always think that I’m lazy, up until recently, but ist actually not true. I like work! Physical - I like building, constructing, crafting and repairing; intellectual - I absolutely love researching and systematizing information for others, educating others, writing and translating. Even emotional - I like supporting and comforting others in their time of need. I just don’t earn money with my work, which automatically means that it is irrelevant
It's crazy that partaking in slow living is pretty much rebellion. At university studying landscape architecture, I had to fight so hard to enforce boundaries on my time and energy just to be able to cook dinner, get enough sleep, and enjoy a little bit of downtime to read (reading? in university? the audacity) at the end of my day cranking out drawings and models in studio. I'm not going to get into the horrible things I've experienced in the workplace, suffice to say that achieving a life of slow living has become my ultimate goal. I just want to be left in peace!
You're so right about the importance of inviting public spaces and gardens as places where people can come together and make things happen outside of commercial imperatives. That is part of the reason why I chose my field of study. But the reality is that the vast majority of built projects are funded by people and institutions who have no interest in helping 'people' who are not also their clients. More often than not the priority is reducing construction costs, which means fewer amenities, which means more sterile utilitarian spaces where nothing happens.
In both domains the problem is money, or the lack of it.
I'm a farmer and homesteader, but I fully embrace what is called slow living now. I work for myself, I don't "hustle" on anyone else's time, and I'm allowing myself to have a quiet routine in both the morning and the evening (especially in the evening, when I take some time to sit on my porch with a hot cup of herbal tea and just enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of evening time in whatever season it is).
But remember, I'm a farmer and homesteader. That often means long days in whatever weather we're dealing with doing a LOT of walking and manual labor. Farmers are some of the hardest-working people in existence, because what we're able to harvest is directly tied to the amount of physical effort we put in, no matter the season or weather. So saying that folks who adopt slow living are lazy absolutely doesn't make sense in my situation, and probably doesn't make sense in lots of other situations either.
I just refuse to dance to someone else's music at this point. I work harder with longer hours now than I ever did when I had a job and worked for someone else, but the difference now is that I don't experience burnout. I look forward to the work I have to do each day, I actually feel accomplished when I look at what I've done, my work actually has a significant positive impact on my family and community, and I still have time to rest, rejuvenate, and appreciate the beauty and life around me.
Sending a big hello from the U.S.! 👋🏾
As a Canadian who lives out in a basement in the suburbs I feel this. Their aren’t enough open community spaces it’s been designed that we live in a box to get into a box to drive to a box to work, shop for food or things, to visit someone else box but outside of this their isn’t much open active community. The monetary privilege to afford to enter another space outside of your home is high that many don’t and so we sit in our little boxes in north America trying to find some meaning.
hehehe yyou got me with boxes.
@@Avalonanon you are aware of the concept of a public place, right?
The system was designed that way for a reason: to get people more involved with sin. The "box" doesn't want to be there either. We should be thanking God for what He's done.
well put
That's baffling to me, because you've got so much space over there. I live on a 9x5 island with 120000 people on it, and nowhere is more than 100m from a house. Me and my mates still find spots where we won't be disturbed for a fire and some beers in the woods. I expected Canada to be perfect for that, especially with the legal weed.
This is the lifestyle I've been feeling in my core that brings me peace. Our value shouldn't be how much money we make from working. You're right that creating art/music, caretaking, volunteering to garden or cook or take care of animals is all value we can also bring to the world. What you said at the end about being social creatures & showing the people in your town on tables was quite interesting. It got me thinking of how growing cities/towns only build what makes profit - malls, stores, houses, apartments. Parks are like 1 per city. It would be nice to have more courtyards like the ones in Mexico where people just hangout outdoors eating ice cream, drinking coffee, sometimes watching local performers.
That’s why my husband and I recently moved to Mexico, we love the culture here and just returned home after sitting in a small cafe with one of his artist friends, talking about sculptures, paintings and sharing creative ideas
@@down-to-earth-mystery-school that cafe hangout sounds divine🌟😊 One of my friends also moved her entire family to Mexico
I am quite hopeful now, because at least here in Germany this subject has gained a Bit of attention After the Lockdowns when people craved spaces to connect and you Could See where small Independent Shops werde able to survive because They Were part of a neighbourhood community!
I recently lived in Veracruz, Mexico for about two months, and it was incredibly eye-opening. I lived in Mexico’s coffee growing capital, Coatepec, and spent a lot of time in the capital of Veracruz, Xalapa. It was the best I’ve ever felt in my life. The town square parks was the key to that. Whether I was busy running errands or feeling low and wanting some socialization and scenery, I walked or took a taxi to the central park to rest, chat, and maybe wander into a nearby coffee shop. I got more sleep, ate better (often in the homes of the people I met in the town square!), and even had fewer symptoms of a chronic illness I have. I also stopped paying much attention to the mirror. It was really a culture shock coming back to the US, which feels soulless in comparison.
one of the things i hate with hustl culture, on a personal level, is that now i even see my hobby as something that has to be productive. I really love to draw, and i'm shaming myself when i don't do it and play video games instead because "it's not productive". I'd like to learn music and i discourage myself telling me i would be bad, and it wouldn't be profitable. I know those kind of thoughts are stupid but it's so engraved in my brain ; i wish i could live slowly. It's really complicated when capitalism is everywhere and you base your worth on it, especially for people like me who aren't tailored to live this way : i hate work, i just want to do art and be with the people i love all my life. This has so much grasp on the way we view ourself - the productivity thing i mean. I wish we could be nicer to ourselves, and other (as in content creators for a start ? idk we just seem to expect so much of them).
Thank you for the video ♥ i kind of want to take thing slow from now.
Same. It's always on my head that my art isn't good to be sold, so I shouldn't be making it
I agree. For my part, my very limited and personal definition of slow living seems to spit in the face of everything that the world demands of people. One's worth being tied to a job that would replace a person the second they die. Everyone is replaceable, no job is secure, honestly. .. And yet - people will tie themselves in knots and throw themselves away for things like that - chasing through the entryway that is college. There's a kind of integrity to slow living - almost like an outer and deeper awareness that something truly is wrong with society and to not be apart of it. I've been quite depressed all my life, thinking I had no worth because what worth was I making? What was I contributing? I'm creative, too .. and the whole selling art and commissions is also a sour taste in my mouth. I think a lot of creative people forget why they're creative in the first place - and it isn't to make money. .. One's worth is never based on a job or what they can do. It's sad that people don't even know how to rest properly. I don't think these feelings are an accident. There's a lot I still need to think about, but, I really do need to be honest and authentic with myself - and this hustle life, chasing a job and everything goes against my internal makeup and natural energy level. It is a direct adversary to things that are good and honest, calm, and peaceful - things that I need in my life. People try to live life and yet, let it steal life away from them. I wish you luck. :) May we both live life at our own pace instead of anyone else's.
Exactly how I feel!
@@nomadicgamer9466 wow, phrased everything I feel better than I could put words to
This is actually exactly what I've been doing with my life for several years now, I first started realizing that living slowly and for the enjoyment of life would be MY most productive choice when I found out that I could never earn enough to live 'normally' because of my chronic health conditions.
Despite my conditions people regularly ask me what my 'plans' are, if I'm going to try studying again or if I'll try my hand at a regular job. I have explained to people around me that it would not be good for me, I know it's an expectation from society and especially so because I am living on government benefits but in reality I would never be able to work enough in a week to no longer be on benefits, my physical and mental health would suffer in the process.
Because of these factors I have chosen to focus on my friendships, passions (I do a lot of art and handcrafting), I make things for people around me, I travel somewhere when I'm able (which is every couple years usually).
My life is slow and quiet in comparison to that of most people but I'm happy and I truly hope that other people start to understand that it's not realistic to expect everyone to work beyond their means with the aim of a reward that might never come.
Your story is similar to mine, Eva! I created my whole channel around it. Slow living is a necessity for those of us with chronic conditions.
So true, plus with many workforces are reportedly have been sufferring from long covid which is a chronic health condition, society will have no choice but to slow down and change.
@@healwithlaurennicole Absolutely! I love that you made a channel about this topic, I wish there was more general awareness about how helpful this lifestyle and movement is to people like us.
I’m in a similar boat. There is a lot of shame when it comes to having chronic conditions though as many still expect you to be “normal”.
I've been working fulltime whilst having chronic pain/fatigue etc. because of expectations and people around me not blieving me. It's brutal. I have no energy to do anything in my spare time. I will be quiting this job soon and live more slowly this summer and enjoy myself. Also working is so pointless if you can't even get a house and build a normal life.
Aparna Sen, the veteran actor and director, once said that in order to be creative, you have to be in a state of free flotation. Living slowly really puts things into perspective.
I feel this in my soul.
Humans were never meant to endlessly work and be productive. Even sitting too much is dangerous. We need those third places to come together. We need to feel alive!
Cottagefairy is my *ahem* second favourite UA-camr :) Do you have links to the channels of the other youtubers you mentioned?
leahs channel is just @leahsfieldnotes :D
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After a long time in academics, I worked for three years in a different country. The jobs themselves were alright and they did have a somewhat noble end goal (medical biotech) but I had to leave the most recent one due to work visa related issues. But in a way, it's been a blessing. I had managed to save up a decent amount of money and now that I've moved back home, I am planning on doing all the things I wanted to do but did not have the time to before. I'm going to do this until I can pursue other opportunities that will interest me and I feel the need to have a steady income. I call it temporary retirement. It certainly is a privilege but unless people who are in a position to do so take breaks from capitalistic careers or whatever else promotes slow living, it will not be normalized.
Enjoy your time off to play, you earned it!
This video made me emotional, i truly wish more people(myself included) had the opportunity to do slow-living. Most of us are just trying to survive these days, slow-living unfortunately isn't really a choice when you can barely survive.
My son and his fiancé have taken up slow living and it is hard as it goes against ALL society preaches. I'm doing all I can to support him and am working on shifting to "living small" as I prefer to call it...
As you are describing your way of being from childhood on, I remember when I learned that I am a high sensation seeker, a person who needs new and novel experiences. I am also highly sensitive, so my optimal level of arousal is narrow - too little stimuli and I am bored, too much and I am overwhelmed. But give me a slow living activity like gardening, writing, or volunteering and I will be deeply engaged without exhaustion. I actually find this type of ‘productivity’ to be energizing, rather than many of the useless tasks I was asked to complete when I previously worked a corporate, capitalist job. Glad you are out here, spreading the word, they more of us who advocate for, and choose this type of lifestyle, the quicker things will change💜
While I was in Copenhagen, I actually saw a lot of cafés where laptops were prohibited during all days of the week. This slow living lifestyle is sth that feels very scandinavian to me
So the only thing people could be using a laptop for is work? That idea is just silly.
@@ffwast It's to encourage people to just enjoy the moment. If you want to sit for hours and watch youtube videos, do that at home. It's quite selfish to take up a coffee shop table for hours even to work, especially if you're just playing games/watching videos etc.
One of the things I have found in my exploration of slow living is that one of the most powerful things I can do as a person pushing back against an extractive economy is doing the work of reducing my income dependence (things like growing food for my family and community or making my own cloth or clothing or furniture as a way to slow my rate of consumption). It has been an incredible antidote to hustle culture, because the processes there are inherently slow, steady, and responsive to the world around me, and because it is in many ways pursuing the same ends by inverse means, and when I have the two to compare, the 'fast track' of hustle culture seems impersonal, disconnected, and abhorrent, by comparison.
Hope you're enjoying Barcelona! It's good to see more people of my generation embracing slow-living; self-care is the way.
One way I’ve implemented slow living into my life is focusing on my religion and spiritual focus more. Since then I’ve found that I’m more grateful and enjoy the little moments even more than when I tried my hand at the typical self-care practices like gratitude journaling. I realized that I didn’t need to buy a notebook, stickers, fancy pens and markers in order to have gratitude in my daily existence. Living prayerfully has helped me feel less guilty for taking time to help other people rather than prioritizing time efficiency when working. Taking time to absorb the lessons of Christ (which I’ve found are super anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist) and find value and love my life even when things are hard has done wonders for my mental health. I’m in college and I changed my major, now I’m doing a degree (animal science) I really want and enjoy rather than sacrificing my mental clarity pursuing what everyone expected of me. I wouldn’t have made that change had I not started focusing on what I felt was right for me, and that began with my religion.
Same here
Me too! Sadly I can't change my degree (Classics) but I've picked up as many environmental science opportunities as possible and tbh knowing more about the world Jesus lived in makes him seem even more radical.
I can't relate but I'm so happy that works for you!!
I was your typical over-achiever when I realised two years ago that I probably don't have to work as hard as I did to reach my dreams (living with animals and children in the countryside while working in my dream field) and just stopped stressing as much. Funnyly enough, my academic performance has actually not dragged as much as I thought, I just don't spend more time then neccessary on topics I don't enjoy and in term study my favourite fields more. And most of all, I really enjoy studying now that I don't force myself to! :)
I strive to live like this. I noticed I disliked the lifestyle of capitalism a few years ago. I was so depressed and felt so left behind I wasn’t “achieving” anything career wise. Then I realized it’s because of capitalism. I noticed this idea of slow living when I watched studio ghibli movies. The “slice of life” type anime. Enjoying and romanticizing your life the way it is. Just stopping and watching and enjoying this moment in time. I am an artist and the idea of not working a traditional job and just working on art and going on hikes, walks, enjoying nature, and architecture. I want to read and just relax. Capitalism wants us to be workers and will call us lazy because they don’t want us to stop working our life away for them. Laziness does not exist. We just want to enjoy our lives. Wonderful video it makes me feel more certain about my beliefs and who I am and being happy!!
Also I want to add I want to move out of America because of the community and architecture and public transit in other countries it’s much more enjoyable for me.
The thing with capitalistic work it's that it's never just 9-5. I wish it was just 9-5 for me. It's not 9-5 for a lot of people I know.
I generally work 10-14 hours a day on a 8h contract. I'm pushed to deliver projects on tighter and tighter deadlines so the company can grab more clients and make more money. They don't pay overtime. They make you feel like it's your fault you're not fast enough even if the work volume multiplied by 5 in 3 years. If you refuse to deliver no matter the impact on your persobal time they don't give you a raise in the context that food and everything is more expensive and you essentially get a pay cut. They don't hire enough people because "economic crisis, inflation etc.".
If I though the 9-5 to letf me tired with little time to do anything on the personal side, this 9 to 9 or sometimes more leaves me feeling like a zombie. I've gained a lot of weight, I never have time to exercize, cook, do anything personal, the only life I live is during weekends and I'm too tired to do much. I clean my home, I cook, I watch some show on Netflix with my partner. Tell me if that's a life worth living. At the beginning the of year I told them it's enough with the unpaid overtime for me. I can't continue working like I'm a piece of machinery, I'm a human being. This is what hustle culture promoted by pro capitalists does. They make you into a cog that can't take any breaks, that is worthless in their eyes unless they're constantly producing something. It's a sick society. You can call me lazy, I'm not going to an early grave to make more money for a company that would replace me any second. I can't grow as a person if I don't have time to read, learn new skills, rest. When I talk to people about having the right to do those things they like at me like I'm asking for handouts.
This video paved a bridge in my mind closer to BALANCE. A type of balance where we still do the work we enjoy and serve the community by fulfilling a role in a healthy way but at the same time not reducing our value to that and also building a life around the things that truly matter to our happiness and wellbeing (other than out work ofc). Love it!!
Aurora's the seed is definitely a gem that everyone needs to listen to and learn from.
I've been slow living all of my life and everyone around me has tried to "wake me up", in vain. It's a nice way to live and I recommend it to anyone and everyone. My life is happy and fulfilling. Both my husband and I work part time, which gives us time to be with our children, grow our own food and meet up for coffee and conversations with each other and with family and friends. We also live within walking distance from our places of work, so there is no commute and we know the people living in our neighbourhood, which is quite rare when living in a metropolis.
Living more intentionally has also made me better at my job, so it's definitely a plus for society to work less and be less stressed.
You are terrifying the people who attend the Davos meetings. They are campaigning to raise the retirement age so that they win several more years of our lives to extract wealth from. Pointless wealth that they will add to their hoard and in their lifetimes never spend.
Hello :) being a French student feeling like my life doesn't have much purpose, I'm curious to know what kind of jobs u and ur husband are working
Hello :) being a French student feeling like my life doesn't have much purpose, I'm curious to know what kind of jobs u and ur husband are working
@Marie D I'm a freelance architect and he's a librarian.
This video really struck a chord with me, I was getting emotional right along with you! I constantly struggle to balance growth vs mindless productivity. You've helped me better grasp that slowing down can help me remember why I'm seeking productivity in the first place.
Thanks for all that you do, Alice!
This video has really helped me articulate the thoughts and confusion i've been having with having to do with slow living lately. I am currently on a gap year and am in a fortunate position to be able to be working in hospitality and then having a fair amount of time off in between that. I've sensed in myself a desire to want to go outside more, go for walks, practise my guitar, shape up on my reading both sociology related and also to just finally finish that Zadie Smith on my bedside table. But i've felt this mental block; partially owed to the fact i am struggling with a short attention span and phone addiction. But also partly because I've felt a resistance and confusion as someone who identifies as a leftist to take that time for myself both physically, politically, and emotionally. I don't think i've fully been able to reason with myself why taking that time is so important, and why there isn't any shame in it, and moreover how it actually empowers what I believe in and have always told myself I believe in. This whole discourse just feels so important. This video on top of the Elliot Sang I have been watching lately has brought me so much clarity about what I've been feeling lately and in turn so creatively inspired. So thanks for the video i really appreciated it :)
Feel this so much!
8:02 Wow, Alice and I would be such besties because I hated blah holidays and I still have a book on birds while also knowing bird species.
I live in the middle of nowhere in the countryside and it frustrates me seeing it so romanticised especially by Leah but I still enjoyed her countryside content but this slow life is heavily romanticised and from someone in their 20’s living in the middle of nowhere it’s pretty lonely, hard to meet people and have a community especially in the rural countryside and even if you do these gentle habits you’re still faced with isolation of the rural. Anyways that’s my point of view from someone who lives in the rural country that’s always romanticised and it definitely doesn’t look like the cottagefairy or Leahfieldsnotes version, if that makes sense. Even being a UA-camr, I have to use my 4G hotspot to upload and many other things that aren’t in the cottage core aesthetic and slow living etx
The idea that the Left is "lazy" is so strange to me, in Sweden we are the only party that have in our political goal "the right to have a job". Still the Right belive that we don't want to work? What we want is to be able to live a full life from our 9-5 without feeling burnt out. We want to contribute to our community because it's importent, not work becauce we want to win capitalism.
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I'm just settling in Mexico City now and am picking up skateboarding again, cruising through the city exploring the endless beauty here... that's my casual magic and I love it.
@Ulises Martínez heartbreaking to hear that but there is no doubt there is often beauty and magic even in the most dangerous places. And I’ve been to a number of places in Mexico and while there are of course problems I’ve also encountered a lot of beauty and magic in the people from here
I've always viewed you as a genuine person but at 8:13 I teared up because that was such an endearing and wholesome moment.
Great video as always, Alice.
Keep it real Alice! I'm a big fan of the channel ever since I came across the videos and make it a point to recommend it to people.
The fact you kept the moment at 8 minutes says a lot. You got this. :')
I feel this with the lack of open spaces. As a kid, there was no open area to hang out in with my friends. We would meet up by the library and sit in the space between the wall and the road since there was a picnic table. All of the parks in town were private property of schools. We never really saw people outside other than us. Even having a dog park with a gazebo is better than nothing.
i highly recommend the book "The Serenity Passport: A world tour of peaceful living in 30 words" by Megan C Hayes. Its a short and easy read that really inspired me with multiple little way i could incorporate slow and peaceful time for myself. Honestly recommend
Me and my husband is slow living again and we try to do fun activities outdoors mostly somewhere else, work somewhere else and create in certain rooms only and do nothing else there. 4 days of our vacation we do nothing but creativity and rest and read and people think we are crazy. We go for daily walks and sit still for at least 4 hours and do not answer calls and dont use internet, we also take naps.
As a graduate student, I relate to the concept of mentally expanding what "work" means so much -- I find that many activities like organizing seminars, mentoring, building community within my academic field (usually with the aim of dismantling the inequities that exist there), or even teaching aren't considered to be (important) "work". These tasks are devalued and seen as distractions to the "real" work of research. Of course, the mental and emotional labor that these activities require usually falls on women and other people belonging to groups historically excluded from academia...
This was such an interesting video. I found myself nodding my head all throughout it. And then to top it of you mentioned Aurora. I think the fact that artists like her are getting more and more popular, and the fact that we are discussing the topics you usually discuss in your videos, serve as proof that many of us want the same. We long for a community in where everyone lifts each other, and where living a life where stress is not the main motor is actually attainable. We deserve to live peacefully, we really do. We deserve to be the owners of our own life.
I think it’s important to consider that not everyone has a choice to live this way. It can be a choice but it isn’t always possible
My favorite thing to do nowadays is going to playgrounds, I love just feeling like a kid again and doing stuff purely for fun. Swinging was always my favorite thing to do cause it made me feel like flying, it’s great to have that feeling again.
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For me, productivity means mastery of and indulgence in things that make you feel good about life. Whether it be gardening, making websites, studying the stars, or Warhammer 40k. It's sad some people lose that by boiling it down solely to economic output (to which I ask: where would the money come from without people spending money on things they like?)
My favorite slow living channel is Peter Cook. He is a slow liver in the city and his channel is amazing. Also his voice is unintentional ASMR so it's a double whammy lol
watched this after taking myself out on a sushi date and taking 20 minutes to drink one beer at the end of the meal.
thanks for the video. it's the sort of thing i need to hear right now. too in my head over 'productivity' and 'accomplishment'.
going to go read a book now.
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I rlly loved Everything Everywhere All At Once. Near the beginning there's a scene where they go to the IRS building and Evelyn mistakenly files a receipt for a karaoke machine as a business purchase. Waymond excuses Evelyn by explaining she sometimes mistakes work with hobbies... and the IRS auditor pretty much mocks her by asking: 'Are you a professional singer?'. Evelyn's smile is wiped clean off her face.
I was deeply bewildered by the backlash against the "I don't dream of labor" wave of posts. Not by the right-wing hustle-culture people but by the more left-leaning people who were outraged about the "privilege" aspect of it. They were saying something along the lines of it being a privilege to be able to say you don't want to participate in hustle-culture while others have to work, etc.
While I clearly understood the "I don't dream of labor" expression as a denouncement of ultra-capitalist ideals that reduce humans to their "worth" as workers, where achievement can only be conceptualized as financial and career growth.
As a person who always has to do something, I need to practice slow living. Our work culture, especially in the US, convinces us that we constantly have to do something to be "be productive". Thank you for another thought provoking video
Same, neurodivergency makes slow living so hard, but I know that I need it.
@@penpolyon8179thats so true haha, as someone with adhd and autism, slow living is a tricky balance to strike...but once you hack it and let yourself adapt to it as the new "routine" and the new normal, its so rewarding and peaceful to just like chill
I have chronic fatigue and it's literally forcing me to live slow, but I've only recently been able to stop feeling guilty about it. Honestly that came more like "Well, fuck all of this hustle and bustle bullshit, I'm not going to do that." I'm not lazy and I have never been, but I always felt that way and was made to feel that way by society and peers, both actively and passively.
The stuff that I do make are all creatively driven things. I refuse to do anything that is directly seen as "productive". Without art, interesting designs, etc. people aren't inspired to do things. I mean anything. We need things to inspire us and I hope making things will inspire others.
AND SHORTER WORK DAYS/WEEKS ARE PROVEN TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE EVEN IF THAT IS AN ISSUE.
This is a lesson I'm having such a hard time learning. I've just moved to Paris, and I'm really trying to incorporate a slow-down into my life. It requires a real rewiring of my mind. Thanks for this.
Slow living is a wonderful framework, this is mindblowing for me. Thank you.
Capitalist society trains us to think it's never enough. Im 22 right now living with my girlfriend and I make enough money to pay my bills, save some, and not lose my mind (I still do occasionally) from work stress and extremely long shifts. Family friends will say "that's fine,for now." Maybe they will end up right who knows, but I'm happy with what I have now and don't plan on needing much more. I could live in our one bedroom one bathroom apartment forever; it feels like home, and that's more important than having a huge house. Not sure about having kids; we've talked about adopting one and having a dog in the future, but nothing certain.
I already have so much that so many other people don't have. I try to be grateful for everything I have and I could always improve as I still waste a lot I'm sure. Endless working towards excess is a trick to keep us unsatisfied with whatever we have.
(I live in the US for clarification. We have so many issues, but I have many things to be gateful for as well.)
I think I’d like to differentiate between what I think you’re indicating as slow living… and what I currently do too often.
I often find myself at my computer playing video games. Often I don’t even have the goal of getting better at that game. I play it because it’s fun and a way to get little dopamine hits when I win. I do this for hours each week.
Slow living by contrast SEEMS (correct me if I’m wrong) to be a more deliberate series of actions that don’t fit in the typical business models of productivity but still provide value to your life. (The one disagreement I have with your video is that no economist is measuring this video) For instance many studies have shown that your mental and physical health are improved if you spend time in green/nature. That would have a beneficial effect on businesses as you need fewer sick days and health insurance becomes less expensive. Volunteering Carries value because the likely alternative is that someone would need to pay for that service. OR the service would not be done and a thing or person would be lost/destroyed or simply continue with lowered efficiency.
Don’t undervalue (even in a financial sense) the movement that you’re advocating. Dollars may not exchange hands but as you say, you are not lazy. And as you didn’t say specifically, there is direct and indirect value in what you’ve done. Life expectancy and health go up with rich social ties. This suggests that people may choose to wait longer before retiring. The activities your describing have value in ways society is getting better at recognizing. (Though I’ll give the right wing detractors that we may not always know how to use these efficiency boosters in the most efficient way yet.)
Sorry for the train of thought message. My English teacher would be sad I didn’t shift some of these paragraphs around for a harder hitting argument.
slow living while living in one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in Barcelona seems kinda tone deaf tbf
Slow living 101 - working class gets political and economic power, cut working hours to 6h/day (4x/week), universal healthcare, builds enough living spaces and changes production methods. All other "slow living" trends are just products to consume and generate profit (for creators to afford this "slow living" lol).
i accidentally stumbled upon this video, and it was such food for thought.
for the longest time i felt an immense pressure to have ‘a big dream’ that i have to work relentlessly to follow. and i am a hard worker, i love the rush of productivity, but every single passion project i completed, every single thing i dedicated my time to finish fell flat. it was not contributing to something major, ‘a big dream’. and just now i am realizing that this was a myth spoon-fed me by the same structures that value hustle culture. you do your big thing, you specialize, then you die. it is so hollow. to lack a big aspiration in not to lack humanity. i think it is a great lesson for me
When I moved to a small town, I started living slowly, without even realizing it. I have to walk to the countryside every day to get to school. There is not much to do here, so when I am bored I can go to the mountains or to the sea, and there is not as much competition for success here as in the big city, so it does not occupy my thoughts completely.
You continue to inspire me. In the United States, where I live, and am a citizen, the path is intentionally very narrow, and most people cannot conceive of another way than working for a profit-driven corporation until 67 years of age, and finding that the state pension (social security) will provide about 1/2 of what you really need to survive, so "you'd better be an investor."
I am also an Italian citizen, which I recognize as a real privelege. A life in Europe, where different ideas/paradigms are (still) viable, is available to me; these types of conversations and insights are essential for the planet, and to my well being, as part of the whole.
Thank you for all that you do, and the succint way in which you present your ideas. Did I say that you inspire me? 💞
loved this video alice! i appreciated so much that you didnt cut out getting emotional. you’re one of my favorite youtubers and it was nice to see a different side of you, even for a koment. i appreciate your vulnerability!
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The people who believe in the ableist concept of laziness are the same people who believe that humans are innately lazy.
To me, humans are innately driven. We all want to do something with our lives otherwise we become depressed. Laying on the couch all day, watching TV and eating junk makes us depressed.
But some people don't have a choice. I am severely depressed; I often cannot leave the bed, I cannot shower or brush my teeth regularly, and all of that makes me feel worse BUT I CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I'm on medicine, I'm going to therapy, I do not want to be "lazy" and I'm doing my best to get better BUT IT'S HARD.
I wanna make art! I wanna work as a librarian! I am human and therefore driven!
"Laziness" is an ableist concept and thinking humans are innately lazy or capitalistic is bollocks!
Slow living is my motto but it has some privilege too, so if you have slow living please be aware that not everyone can have that.
omG alice is an aurora fan too aaaaa
*when the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money*
When slow living is politicized it is a turn off... it undermines the benefits of slow living... it puts a kind of pressure to be perfect on those attempting the change to slow living.
it's also interesting that by defining work solely as capitalist work, it inforces the mysoginist concept that other kinds of work like house chores (often being done by women) are devalued and not being seen as "actual" work
in europe there is an organisation called cittáslow.
all further urban developement in those cities consider a more slow life.
my wife and i were already in three of those cities (two in italy, one in germany) and there is something magical about them.
Except when you are a content creator and you capitalize slow living. It's also cool to see, but is losing the whole point of just being present, because you are filming everything.
"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself." - Joyce Messier (Disco Elysium)
I am lazy so I was well ahead of this trend. It is not a political statement I just don't like working very much. I do 3 days a week doing stuff I enjoy that is plenty. I live very frugally I rarely buy anything apart from food so it works O.K
As someone who lives on a farm i can't imagine how people in cities could live "a slow life". I really didn't understand her when she started talking about bringing slow life to cities
There's a Chinese youtube- Dianxi Xiaoge- who I've watched for years and really recommend for "slow living" content. She makes incredibly beautiful content about life in a rural village with her family cooking dishes with ingredients that came entirely from the surrounding farms and forests.
I didn't realize, that in many countries the concept of an anticafe (or timecafe) doesn't exist. I don't know, which country it originates from, but in Russia there are different places, like actual cafes with couple of rooms or flats, where you can hang out with friends or strangers. You pay only for time spent there, and you have tea and cookies foe free. Often anticafes organize various events, like board games, tea parties, music evenings ("guitarnik" in Russian) and other things. All these events are open for everyone, so the community groes fast. I used to go to one of timecafes to play Guitar hero and was often playing with different people, whom I've never met before. And I met my friends through dnd club, which holds open oneshots in such a place.
So... yeah, if you don't have such place in you town, go and organize it. I bet it will be popular.
Genuine question, how do you live slowly when you’re impoverished. I really vibe with the points in this video, but I feel like I can never achieve this. I work 50h a week and have no other time besides work, rest and repeat. Does anyone have any good suggestions or resources?
Yes, realize that slow living is just another scam developed by online marketers to make money off you. I hope your situation gets better, but please stopy trying to find help off of youtube influencers. It‘s shallow lifestyle bs that wants to be critical.
So cool seeing this concept talked about in youtube circles! I study at uni of warwick and last term I did a whole module on the slow movement, its principles, psychologies and histories - it was AMAZING in reshaping my understanding of how I should view/organize my time, and how I see our issues as a society that is continually working too fast to even see the consequences. Even though the 'official' slow movement first started in Italy in the 80s as a food movement against fast food and commercial farming, there are mini movements in teaching, science, urban planning,travel + more that are demanding we must go slower to work more effectively. There is so much evidence that the fast-paced lifestyle promoted by capitalist consumption is partly what is leading us to such an ill, burnout, creatively uninspired society, unable to solve the world's piling problems within the fog of our overwork. The tension within these movements that we kept coming back to is how much we can truly offset the accelerationist aspect of capitalism through personal lifestyle change vs more radical (but less reachable) radical action. Wherever you end up in that debate, it is still undoubtedly true that reorganizing your life to have more moments of stillness, minimalism, and intention will make you feel so much happier and fulfilled and in tune with the world around you. Less truly is more in giving your day-to-day life meaning and intention. I really recommend "In Praise of Slow" by Carl Honore if anyone wants to read more on this:)
This video was more rich and thoughtful (in such a short timeframe) than even Cal Newport's book Slow Productivity. I am thankful that you touched on the real differences between the two and showed even a couple examples. I have to stop the video multiple times and rewind coz my mind clicked on so many points. As you said there any multiple types of growth and so on. Thank you!
I love how you’ve grown more confident (and audio is actually loud enough haha). I remember I used to comb my arm hairs every time I used skin lotion and they eventually stayed combed…
More importantly I really like these dissertations and you leave me with more questions and references to look, a little overwhelmed on how you’ve read so much too. I think that can be a good thing.
Thanks for your work.”, keep it up!
This is the first time I've seen a video from you but omg I can't believe how many of the thing you said are things I've been struggling with and had no idea there was a community around it.
I've been struggling so much with the question "why does life have to be so busy, why does a capitalist job have to be the main defining feature of us, of what we do in our life?"
Every day I see people in a rush not respecting overtaking laws and safe distances when I'm on my bike, and I think "why? How is that three seconds of your time worth it to endanger me? why would you want to live in a rush just so you can consume more and own more things? Would you not rather just have a more peaceful life and own less things, and have to worry less about things you own?"
And I have to be honest, almost a year ago, after growing up in a kinda poor family and first financially struggling with the pay from my first job, I got a job that pays really quite well.
At first I was really happy to not have to worry about spending something on the little things like a train ticket to visit friends, or eating out with my girlfriend, but now...
I'm not happier. not at all to be honest. I don't enjoy the nice things I can buy now any more than the basic but good things I occasionally could afford before. I'm seriously thinking about changing to a 4 day work week, but then the laziness thing comes up again. But I'm not lazy, I just want more time for me, for friends, for families, for hobbies. Working five days a week just results in me not seeing my family or friends for weeks, sometimes months at a time. By the time it's weekend I first just wanna recharge and do nothing, and then there's stuff to do around the house.
I don't want to live to work. I want to live to help humanity be the best version of itself. I want to help people create a brighter future for this planet.
Producing value has got to be divorced from $$ value. Health is a much more important value to name one. Social connections, good feelings/enjoyment =good memories and a sense of satisfaction
i feel like oftentimes our procrastination is really driven by the subject matter of this video. We go around life, going to school, trying to have hobbies on the side, always vying for peak productivity. When I draw some days it feels like i’m doing it less for myself and more to see a finished product, to see what tangible thing I created to be able to show for the time I put in. Or making music, how can this be used productively to benefit myself and others as our culture dictates we do. Everything is marketable, everything has to have an end goal, things can’t simply be for their own sake
the end of the video reminded me of a study that showed that having more walkable, green, open (for free activities) places in cities is linked to less depression as well.
I'm on short vacation this week and was all the time today thinking I could live my daily life more like I live when in vacation and then you just post a video about the exact same!
I absolutely love to hear your voice, tbh sometimes i don't even care about the subject (despite it being interesting in itself), but just hearing you speak is so pleasant. I also love the way you think : sometimes, you can take an idea or concept, and explore it through a video ; initially i would not care about it, but you make it interesting and as a result make me interested in the subject. That's a really great skill, even tho it's hard work 95% of the time. So, congrats.
Slow living isn't only about "privilege"! Who ever you are and whatever your social and financial backgrounds are, slow living is about enjoying or taking your time to enjoy some activities you do in every day life no matter how "simple" they may seem. It is about taking a step back while you can!
but it's quite difficult in a dangerous place, as a person who live in South America, there's places where people is afraid living in their own home, so living a slow peaceful life is not that easy for them
@@catalina5925 slow life doesn't mean peaceful life. There is no such thing as peaceful, there will always be problems, issues, difficulties and challenges, that's life. The danger consists in taking slow living for what it is not, in looking at it throigh extremities. Slow living is while you can you take some time to have a walk in your hectic life.
Me and my partner were talking about prodictivity a few days ago, and for the first time I finally said that being the "gifted child" is a very harmful way to go on, especially building self-esteem. Even doing a different job I learned that I only "deserve love" (ofc it's not true) after literally working for it.
I was constantly overwhelming myself with projects, and got angry, because never finishing any of them, but still making enormously long lists what do I wanna do. On the opposite of scale is my partner , who is incredibly well-balanced, but sometimes might forget stuff, cuz lists freak him out. Funny add on, as my dyslexia is blooming at it's best, I developed a list of insecurities how to hide my condition, but my messines is a thing that never got away. Relatives are continously made fun of me for not being put-together enough ALL the time (I'm a clean person, just chaotic, I can't keep everything perfectly organized for too long). Slow life ideas were pretty interesting to me, after burning out myself constantly, and not taking care of that I need more time. Need to be more patient with myself, and got blamnig myself for being unable to build a routine well, is a great monster, and not even from the fluffy ones.
During the 1st lockdown I took the time to learn more proper ways of handsewing, which helped me a lot to sooth my day, my feelings, and feel a little bit less chaotic. Sewing became so essential, it's part of my weekly routine to do, even if I won't finish something I wanted, but took the time to occupy my hands, but keep my mind relaxed. Sure, lots of ideas all around, putting them in small boxes in my head usually end up coming back at a better time. Now time to take some Cottagefairy lessons! Thanks for your video 🌿🌿🖤
I haven't quite finished the video yet, but it got me thinking about Harmony Nice. She left UA-cam about a year ago, which I feel is the ultimate decision of slow living, because if you film yourself on a long walk in the woods as a UA-camr then you've still made it into work 😂 I think she mainly writes and paints now, occasionally uploading to Instagram.
Merci pour ton contenu Alice ! je pense que le slow living nous interroge non seulement sur un rythme de vie mais aussi sur le sens que l'on met derrière nos activités, que ce soit le travail mais aussi nos activités à côté
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Speaking as a lazy person. I don't get offended when people call me lazy, because I would rather be lazy than ever give the slightest shit about working for a wage lol
É quase como se estivéssimos voltando aquela época romântica de "fugir da cidades" e "viver o momento", mas de uma forma moderna ou pós moderna. Não é uma crítica, é só uma observação. Sempre achei legal esse ideia de largar tudo e fugir para o meio do mato, acho essas ideias eremiticas bem legais, bem rebeldes. Se eu pudesse eu faria isso agora ! O slownliving pode ser o primeiro passo, né, para esse desejo eremitico 😁
I chose to move away from the city and live in a small village on the country side. I have to say though, without first having made money, I would have not been able to do so and truly feel relaxed. I have friends who still need to work, eventhough they also baught cheep land far away from infrastructure. But it still costs some money, and you still need to see a doctor (like dentist every 6 months, gynacolosist every 6 months, dermatologist evey 6 months, doing blood tests every couple of months, or if you have kids seeing doctors sometimes weekly) for which you need a car (if you live far away as often uber becomes incredibly pricy or not available in those areas and public transport only goes until maybe 9pm and after that you are kinda screwed (dont get me wrong its great that there isnt constant buses coming as it would disrupt the tranquility but still not that convenient). You also have to pay for electricty or to pay back depth for your voltaic solar panels, your earth warming pump, or just material you sometimes cant thrift and have to buy for you house. Also if you like me plant your own veggies, at the beginning you need to invest in some tools, also in seeds, take in account that some products will go waist as you have no clue and its kinda try and error. You still will travel as you crave connection to your friends and family, and you still want to feel that you have savings somewhere invested as you never know how long the government will provide you with retirement care and free health care. Also at least in Austria, you are not insured unless you work at least a little bit. So you have to do digital nomad life and get freelancer jobs just to pay monthly your own taxes and insurance. It sounds so easy but ultimatly it is a bigger picture. Unless you decide you never wanna get cancer treatment, or any medical treatment in the future, no money once you retire and are unable to harvest your own food and kinda are dependent on help from outside (though you never paid of helped while you where captabble), and truly disconnnect from anything societal including human interactions, then it doesnt work without savings and money and ultimatley at least some time proviting from capitalism and being able to make a lot of money in a short time. I am at a point where it is easy for me to say that I dont wanna follow hustle style and work 60h a week, including weekends, its easy for me to say oh I just dont wanna pay rent and be in constant need to somewhere get moeny so I dont get kicked out, its easy for me to have private health care insurance inlcuding govermental one, and on days where I dont wanna work I just dont take clients as I could also live without ever working again..But for this I had to work 5 years straight with basically having only work, no freetime, no partying, just focusing on getting further, being stressed and also not having romantic relationships, sex etc. It was a sacrifice. NOw that I am 25 and retired I know that I sacrificed my life from 16 on, didnt experience my first teenage love or kisses or sex or heartbreaks until I was 23 and depth free and on the way of retiring. I have friends who enjoyed their teenage years but now still study or have to work in a 9 to 5 job to survive. And none of them is living hustle wise, they just made the wrong decision to not use the most energetic years to build something from which they can benefit. I am all for slow down and no stress, but you can only enjoy that if you first worked hard to enjoy. Its always some sort of sacrifice. NOw that I could travel and enjoy some fun, I truly appreciate calm life, getting up early, watering my field, harvesting fresh fruit and veggies from the garden, look for my goats and chicken, milking my goats, collecting some eggs, cooking slowly, using only local products and being able to hoast friends and family, sewing my own clothes as I have the luxery of time..But trust me if you long term want to have a life like this, you need the resources. I come from nothing and if you dont have parents who can give or lend you money for buying a house on the country side, you go nuts. I tried to live peaceful in the city but it just doesnt work, the air, the amount of too many people, the overal hectic that comes with many different life styles (which is fine as everyone should have the choice to live how they want unless the hurt someone badly), it just doesnt work long term.
I don't see why this can only be a leftist thing.
I'm a right leaning libertarian and believe strongly in slow living/ frugality.
Even living in a van in the city currently, I prioritize doing art, watering my plants, and not consuming.
Just because I believe capitalism is fundamental doesn't mean I can't resist it on a personal level by consuming less, desiring less, and working less.
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I honestly can't imagine what it's like to strife for productivity, to have "self dicipline" or to give up any amount free time to your job. For years the first thing I do when I come home from school/work has been to just put on comfortable clothes, sit down and listen to music. The only thing I did as preperation for the next day was to check that I had all the stuff that I need for tomorrow in my bag. Everytime I talked to someone in my class about school the only thing I could think was: "Why do you stress yourself so much?".
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I love what you said about connecting to others and having time for this. Mental health issues are growing due to the social disconnection
Incredible piece. I always found it interesting how our generation is always called lazy when it comes to work, but nothing else like household chores or other life maintenance work. We want to take care of our homes, as exemplified by the slow moving movement. Hell, the UA-camrs referenced in this video make entire pieces romanticizing household chores! We want to work. Work is not the problem. The problem is the narrow minded definition of work and how if we want to participate less in capitalist 9-5 type work that’s when we get called lazy as a whole. Sorry if my words are garbled I’m super tired lol but yeah humans naturally will work hard when they see their work as meaningful and beneficial and thank you for expanding the definition of work ☺️
There was no "quiet quitting trend" that was just a buzzword by the media to describe more people becoming class conscious and deciding they'd only do the job theyre actually paid for.
I love watching the streets when not the driver. It’s very magical.
11:50 I cannot agree that raising the retirement age is "objectively unjust". The whole point of pension systems was to circumvent the diminishing productivity of old age and supplant the pre-industrial family or religious charity structures that cared for the elderly by socializing and secularizing care, for these old or deteriorating individuals. But pension system age limits were always a balancing act for generalizing and optimizing for how much care the state could afford for these people, when their labour productivity would invert and how long they would still live for. France is a wealthy and relatively healthy country and now with a life expectancy in the 80s. I would counter that it is actually unfair to expect this and future generations to be outsizedly contributing to people who are still relatively healthy and capable of being productive for a significant portion of their lives. This puts downward pressure on the other half of demographics. There are already alternate measures to ensure that those with degenerative issues from their working career can retire sooner, though medical retirement or variable retirements per occupation: but even miners today do not suffer as miners of earlier generations did. As we make medical, mechanical and societal progress it is fair to reflect that in our legislature. We no longer live in a society with many more children or working age adults than elders. France in 1960 had a retirement age of 60 (or 65 for extra contributions) for a life expectancy of 69. Today the retirement age is 62 for a life expectancy of 82.