Thanks Isabel for this essay! I liked your point about having borders for your attention. In particular, I'm thinking of how time is also part of that border. You don't want to spend so much time living in the future (or the past) that you cannot be present now. I recently read this point in Oliver Burkeman's new book Meditations for Mortals (Day 7) and it has a nice synergy with your essay.
Great advice. In my tradition, those who engage in gossip are punished by eating the decaying flesh of others… it sounds like something from Dante.. but it’s something grotesque because it is a gross practice of indulging in someone else’s drama. Thanks for putting it into the context of social media and modernity.
For me, certainly, at times gossip also disguises itself as productivity.
Thanks Isabel for this essay! I liked your point about having borders for your attention. In particular, I'm thinking of how time is also part of that border. You don't want to spend so much time living in the future (or the past) that you cannot be present now. I recently read this point in Oliver Burkeman's new book Meditations for Mortals (Day 7) and it has a nice synergy with your essay.
This resonates! There seems to be a link indeed between tendencies for gossiping and self-sovereignty, and it’s an opposite relationship.
Thanks for sharing!
Great advice. In my tradition, those who engage in gossip are punished by eating the decaying flesh of others… it sounds like something from Dante.. but it’s something grotesque because it is a gross practice of indulging in someone else’s drama. Thanks for putting it into the context of social media and modernity.