if 2024 was all about physical health; heart holes and blood draws, then as that year curdled and bled into this one, 2025 became about psychic health.
“to be divorced from your body, or to put on a front as a way to deal with your feelings will only corrupt and rot your soul.” — this quote reminds me deeply of what Adorno explores in his Minima Moralia & is a primary critique I have of modern pop psychology, that to be perfectly happy productive and functional in an imperfect world is to be alienated from it and ourselves. Pain is, in balance and moderation, what brings depth and meaning to joy and beauty
“to be divorced from your body, or to put on a front as a way to deal with your feelings will only corrupt and rot your soul.” — this quote reminds me deeply of what Adorno explores in his Minima Moralia & is a primary critique I have of modern pop psychology, that to be perfectly happy productive and functional in an imperfect world is to be alienated from it and ourselves. Pain is, in balance and moderation, what brings depth and meaning to joy and beauty