From The Burnout Society. Han mentions Peter Hadke’s distinctions of tiredness.
- I-tiredness/Divisive tiredness
Tiredness of an exhausted ego. It has an isolating effect.
- We-tiredness
This “we-tiredness” isn’t being tired of others but tired WITH others. It’s the connection in the face of exhaustion society and the demands of a world that doesn’t let up. This kind of Sabbath spirit is time free of all “in order to”. It’s a moment of “not-to”.
“Tiredness is disarming. In the long, slow gaze of the tired person, resolution yields to a state of calm.”
This “cloud of tiredness, an ethereal tiredness”, holds us together. Where tranquility sits alongside the “gift of listening” in the “community of listeners”. In this space, we find rest through the “ability to grant deep, contemplative attention—which remains inaccessible to the hyperactive ego”.
Also that Contrapoints video about coming out and how being at the pits of repair an depression leaves space for yourself to come up with the truth you’ve been repressing or have been ignoring because there is not active mind trying to fight against it.
The more I grow the more I realise how “classical” wisdom - the day of Sabbath for communal rest in this example - is right.