Worth considering "lying flat" is less about avoiding happiness and more about preserving the nervous system.

IMHO: Many are choosing to honour their deep selves instead of glorifying the "hustle" that leads to chronic bracing and burnout.

Instead of judging the lack of traditional productivity, we should look deeper.

Compassion means understanding that a system reset is often the first step toward true, long-term self-respect.

#NervousSystemHealth #SelfRespect #LyingFlat

#Lyingflat in #Qing #China
Six Records of a Floating Life
#ShenFu, #translated by Alex Fang
#Books #Traanslation #Review

https://mekongreview.com/lying-flat-in-qing-china/

> Lu said unemployed graduates understood blaming the government for their plight would be both risky and ineffective. Rather, she said, they were more likely to slip into "an internalisation of discontent and blame" or "#lyingflat".

> "If we have indeed entered 'garbage time', then I think young people could accumulate skills or do something creative, such as selling things via social media or making handicrafts."

https://archive.is/zI5uU#selection-1549.0-1565.142

#china #work #job #employment #labor #laborday

The Friday before
Monday holiday weekend
Office turned ghost town

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #May #Memorial #MemorialDay #MemorialDayWeekend #Spring #Summer #Office #QuietQuitting #LyingFlat #QuietVacation

May 24, 2024

@icedquinn or they see the shite that is going on and decide that #planking is a more effective strategy than getting killed by the state?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planking_(fad)
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-people-letting-it-rot-social-protest-trend-2022-10
https://www.wsj.com/story/chinas-youth-are-quitting-the-rat-race-to-let-it-rot-6ba97f88

#bailan #摆烂 #LyingFlat

The case for ‘lying flat’ (躺平)? 🤔

🇨🇳 CCP's subjects are working their asses off — building their own prison. Think about it.

The never-elected #dictatorship is nothing without its voiceless and rightless 'masses' as a labour force.

Now with the added pervasive #surveillance panopticon — achieved with foreign inventions and technology — those subjects have practically zero chance of ever organizing functional resistance against their armed overlords.

💡️ The only ways of *not collaborating* with their repressors are either 1) fleeing into exile or... 2) "lying flat" (躺平).

That is, doing the absolute minimum to survive without participating in any productive pursuits aiding the regime.

A (far) more dangerous option would, of course, be working to instill the #UnitedNations enshrined civil liberties which the CCP consider as its existential threat...

#CCP #PRC #china #chinese #Hongkong #Hongkongers #Tibet #Tibetans #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #Mongolia #democracy #humanrights #躺平 #lyingflat

A noteworthy #trend out of #China: Youth are flocking to #Buddhist temples and to escape the rat race of contemporary life and get a dose of spiritual comfort. Young Chinese workers’ growing awareness of work-life balance has been a hot topic of discussion in the past few years with the rise in trends like #lyingflat. Many see the rising number of #temple visits as part of a rebellion against the rat race, but some argue that it’s just another trendy photo op.

https://radii.co/article/chinese-youth-are-visiting-buddhist-temples