Mastodawn

Kevin Beaumont Jan 22, 2023

The world has become consumed by the idea that growth at all cost is good. It’s normalised now.

Businesses should simultaneously make record profits and lay people off to make more profits, human populations should grow grow grow, growth mindset, deregulate for growth, consume all resources for growth. It’s all about this quarters results.

Another way of looking at is uncontrolled growth is cancerous. It consumes the host, until the host dies.

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@dillyish

@GossiTheDog
Agreed! Though I can't help but be a little surprised that despite how long this thread is, no one has yet brought up what seems to me to be the necessary remedy: to make powerful shifts (culturally and individually) in our relationship with loss and death. It's easy to become unbalanced in our embrace of growth if we are unable to let go of things that are ready to be let go of. Growth and loss are deeply intertwined and can be equally challenging and uncomfortable, but growth is normalized and celebrated while loss is often positioned as unnecessary, avoidable, an aberration.