This piece struck home. With a son in his 40s deeply depressed by the state of the world and pushed out of his creative directorships by AI, I feel his dilemma of needing meaningful work beyond minimal wage. He will never own a house. He will never earn enough now for a comfortable retirement. His trust in Global North governance and systems of 'care' is completely eroded. He sees what is happening. As a published and exhibited artist before 20, his lifelong dedication and extraordinary creativity, seems useless. Sensitive resonant artists, whom we need in this time, are often without activist communities and have no trust in pathologising mental health systems. Jeremy's work reveals his pain and wild sleeping rage that feeds his depression
Oh my goodness your words really move me. This is the reality for so many people! It is heartbreaking. What we describe as the 'double bind' is exactly this stuckness. What we have to do to earn money is often very ugly if we really pay attention. Money sits right at the messy core of the metacrisis and is something that we can't easily disentangle ourselves from ... unless we have got money. And yet that is exactly what we must do.
This dilemma is not something that one can work out with logic. So we need to access a mindset that can transcend logic's narrow focussed perception. And imagination is a part of it. This is where we don't have to collapse polarities, can hold contradictory tensions and free ourselves from either-or thinking. I think art has this power. But of course it is not valued. AI can create a product, but what it can't do is to come up with a step forward that is born from a felt sense of kinaesthetic, embodied synergy of dancing with the whole system. That's where a path can unfold through the cracks. And I very much hope that a powerful path will unfold for your son. Thanks for sharing!
Eimear, thank you so much for sharing about your son. I can sense there must be so many in this situation, and your point about "earning enough for for a comfortable retirement" touches a fear nerve in me, around my own struggle to save meaningfully for many years now. I can't help but wonder, might be be interested in engaging in the Resonant Man?
This piece struck home. With a son in his 40s deeply depressed by the state of the world and pushed out of his creative directorships by AI, I feel his dilemma of needing meaningful work beyond minimal wage. He will never own a house. He will never earn enough now for a comfortable retirement. His trust in Global North governance and systems of 'care' is completely eroded. He sees what is happening. As a published and exhibited artist before 20, his lifelong dedication and extraordinary creativity, seems useless. Sensitive resonant artists, whom we need in this time, are often without activist communities and have no trust in pathologising mental health systems. Jeremy's work reveals his pain and wild sleeping rage that feeds his depression
Oh my goodness your words really move me. This is the reality for so many people! It is heartbreaking. What we describe as the 'double bind' is exactly this stuckness. What we have to do to earn money is often very ugly if we really pay attention. Money sits right at the messy core of the metacrisis and is something that we can't easily disentangle ourselves from ... unless we have got money. And yet that is exactly what we must do.
This dilemma is not something that one can work out with logic. So we need to access a mindset that can transcend logic's narrow focussed perception. And imagination is a part of it. This is where we don't have to collapse polarities, can hold contradictory tensions and free ourselves from either-or thinking. I think art has this power. But of course it is not valued. AI can create a product, but what it can't do is to come up with a step forward that is born from a felt sense of kinaesthetic, embodied synergy of dancing with the whole system. That's where a path can unfold through the cracks. And I very much hope that a powerful path will unfold for your son. Thanks for sharing!
Eimear, thank you so much for sharing about your son. I can sense there must be so many in this situation, and your point about "earning enough for for a comfortable retirement" touches a fear nerve in me, around my own struggle to save meaningfully for many years now. I can't help but wonder, might be be interested in engaging in the Resonant Man?
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This is important work. I already sense a need and an opportunity for a different kind of role for coaches and therapists. Thank you.