Found over at Enfleshed, interesting interview with Camille Hernandez as part of their “Moments for Common Nourishment.” Two things really struck me – One turn of phrase:
it is an act of alchemy to unlearn scarcity through expanding our relationship with time.
Camille Hernandez
I don’t know what it means to ‘expand our relationship with time’ but it feels like something I’d really like to do! It was also a good reminder that I haven’t yet read Jenny O’Dell’s new(ish) book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock yet, even though it’s on my Kindle. I suspect these ideas are related.
The other thing that struck me was this brief discussion of decolonization and hyper intellectualism as a trauma response:
Decolonizing is not an intellectual pursuit. Hyperintellectualism is a trauma response, and we live in a culture/society that demands we hyperintellectualize our healing journey in order for it to be “valid.” Decolonizing isn’t about how smart, analytical, or well versed you are. It’s about the life you live outside of the public eye. Are you connected? Are you whole? What soil do your roots grow in?
Camille Hernandez
In my universe, there is little that is more hyper intellectualized than everything about the Internet, AI, IT, mobile communications, and all that stuff. If true, what is it all a trauma response to?? Sometimes I think the Internet was a trauma response to massive and widespread feelings of disconnection and alienation. We demolished distance and time as barriers to communication with other humans; obliterated them, really – a magnificent social achievement, on one level, maybe? But somehow it paradoxically has all led to increases in alienation, disconnection, and isolation. How did we get it so screwed up?
