A Slow Mood Manifesto
Like all things, this is a work in progress. We are aiming to cultivate a new idea of selfhood. And a new practice of selfhood as well. Inspired by the Slow Food Movement’s rejection of fast food, we...
View ArticlePraying to an Empty Sky
by Samara Steele Yesterday I caught myself praying to a god I don’t believe in. What happened is I was walking home, alone, late at night, through a dark seedy neighborhood, and I felt the cold claws...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Brain-Self: How Pharmaceutical Companies Hijacked Our Brains
Reprinted from the Slingshot newspaper, issue #106 by Samara Steele A few years ago, I was given a prescription for Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SRIs) for my epilepsy. Like cocaine (which is...
View ArticleCan the “New Age” Save Us? (An Astrological Digression)
by Samara Steele Recently, one of my more mystically-minded friends pointed out that the period discussed in the Slow Mood Mythos (400Bc to the present) roughly corresponds to the Age of Pisces. In the...
View ArticleSeeking a New Social Space
by Samara Steele This week, an article appeared in the Hypocrite Reader entitled “Slow Mood Movement” by Debbie Hu. This thoughtful, articulate piece examines the Slow Mood Movement through the lens...
View ArticleKicking the Addiction Habit
by Samara Steele Lately, I’ve been working to understand my additions. Booze, candy bars, coffee, ice cream, pot — I been a slave to each of these substances in recent years. As for my...
View ArticleOppositional Defiant Disorder
My culture has no place for me. I, the being to which the word “I” gestures has no place in my society’s language, institutions, behaviors. People look at me, and and see only the words inside their...
View ArticleThe Shoplifter
It’s not about the two dollars it would have cost to buy the damn chocolate bar. Nor is it about the stupidly long line at the register— but I think the line has something to do with it. Because I …...
View ArticleI, Capitalist (accounts from a life under the empire)
Reprinted from the Slingshot newspaper, issue #109. by Teresa Smith When I was a kid, I used to watch my mother soak things in hot, sudsy water and then pick the price tags off with her fingernails....
View ArticleA Brief History of Selfhood in the West
[Schema #1 – Western Selfhood: Plato’s poisoned seed grows into the Catholic Church & the Psychology Industry] Myths are the stories we tell ourselves to explain how we got here, and why we do...
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