Recycle The Shit

I often think about systems, the way everything is completely connected, the way that ‘divide and rule’ has been so effectively implemented in our society and the ways that the socially constructed separation of the ‘public’ and ‘private’ hugely underpins this. By encouraging people to believe its okay to be miserable in the work they do because that’s what work is the exploitative cogs keep rolling round. By believing that we should detach from emotions, keep them in ‘private’ where they belong, we are pacified from implementing change. This pacification makes us complacent as individuals, ‘nations’, ‘worlds’ or however you want to put it. I’m on a project of connecting with my emotions in a way that holistically integrates them into who I am completely, in everything I do. I’ve been inspired to write about this because I’ve been reading loads of stuff about it and had an amazing rant last night with my dear friend Sian, who sees the world similarly. We decided that although crap fucked up things happen all the time, instead of internalising our anger (and we have a lot of that to offload!) it’s about finding a way to ‘recycle the shit’ into something good which seems endlessly possible to me right now.