bloomer
A place for optimism, relentless positivity, anti-doomerism, and snuggle sessions.
We're all in this together, and a better world is possible!
This is now also a space for organizing tips for our collective survival as we confront climate change and everything else. Still no doom-posting. We're here to work together, support each other, and boldly face the future.
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I can pontificate on that all day if you'll humor me. Dancing is certainly inherent to us. I think the same of singing (music making in general) and drawing. There was this "my 6 year old said..." in regards to hearing about art school where they go "people forget how to draw?" and it stuck with me forever. So I always have to distinguish between "learning art" and how you are trying to improve a certain, specific avenue of expression like becoming better at figure drawing. It helps clarify the purpose like figuring drawing because you want to draw charicatures at a festival.
I also think of science in this way as well. It's not always formalized with gathering materials, interpretations, conclusions, etc. I think so long as you are willing to try something in the face of not-knowing-ness, you are doing some version of science. When you're depressed and go "I don't know what I enjoy and you try something you have a hypothesis "there is something I can enjoy" and you test it by trying darts, coloring books, and the wordle archive. Then you reflect to see if any of them brought you joy and conclude that you're actually a worlde main. You might do it well with journaling and photos or you might just swish it around in your mind while you're doing something else, but it's the scientific method all the same.
Also, I think we've been wrestling since time immemorial. You have a bunch of small bones in your hands that break really easy when you throw them at people. You can't really play fight by punching very easily. But you can lug each other around and try to pin them to the ground with a bunch of strength and both walk away.
So those are a couple things that simply come with the territory of being human.
Yes! I think Marx touches on all of the above in a way that is very much on point. About the whole "what drives us".