😴 TREE 305: Take another nap
One.
When I get tired,
I get depressed.
I get grumpy like
a normal person.
& I get depressed.
Not DEPRESSED
depressed, but
genuinely sad &
scrollfully mindless &
prone to staying up
too late & then
more depressed.
There’s one cure:
sleep.
A lot of people seem to be tired a lot of the time. Why?
I have hypothesis that may explain some of it.
In a capitalist society like ours, the only truly sacred thing is More. Sell more. Earn more. Buy more. Consume more. To always have more, you need more time. Some people leverage other people’s time. Most people use their own. More and more and more.
The enemy of More is Enough. Think about Enough Sleep. When you’re asleep, no one can do marketing at you, you can’t buy anything, you can’t work. You are blaspheming the sacred More, a thing you must not do. Voices, inside and out, tell you to push longer, scroll deeper, start sooner, end later. It is your duty to exhaust yourself in the worship of More.
Pro tip: More is a made-up god. You owe it nothing.
Two.
Look at the little naked bird rat judging you because your phone doesn’t fold or take photos of space.
Three.
A song for worshiping More.
On Monday I announced that the FOREST is now a team and that Skyler will be editing a new publication alongside TREE. I won’t tell you much about it yet, but you should know that it involves scientists, a philosopher, surfing, brewing, teaching, space, disability, you, a bunch of other things, and this one other thing we can still hardly believe is happening. Stay tuned…
Fun fact of science: Not getting enough sleep not only makes you miserable, It makes you dead. The NHS recommends you have a lie-in this weekend.
Happy sleeping
Jeff
Yes to this! 'Enough' is the cure for pretty much all the destructiveness we are experiencing now. Enough wouldn't fuel an economy built on more growth and more profit, enough wouldn't drive a labour force built on more "productivity" (let's firmly plant those speech marks where they belong!), or consumption, consumerism, fast fashion, or any booms, trends, fads etc you care to mention. I do wonder why we gave up on enough so easily though when it benefits all of us. More doesn't buy you more happiness, so I even include the miserly billionaires in that equation. We clearly can't deal with more. Why can't we deal with enough?
Many years ago whilst in England, I learned about a lie down. At 3 p.m. My body is set for that event daily.