I keep reading this quote and I find myself gravitating to spending the next 4ish years avoiding social media, avoiding the news, and just cooking food, exercising, hanging with my family/friends and enjoying art. Wouldn’t that be the best way to rebel at this shabby world.
“Is reading Faulkner going to make you a better person? Absolutely not,” … “but the whole universe wants you to be optimized, productive, monetized. And sitting around and reading a work of art when it is not your job to do so is a rebellious act that insists I am a human being, actually, and not a cog, not a good little worker, not a cozy girl eating the slop that is fed to me. And developing the parts of myself that are unproductive, ugly, and a drain on resources is a beautiful act of rebellion.” – Jessa Crispin