source: ref_an-ode-to-mood-swings_james-packer_the-atlantic
I’m alive in America in the 2020s, and even-temperedness - emotional homeostasis - is neither attainable nor appropriate.
my underlying feeling is summed up by: I think there is a trend recently of anti-resilience, pro-emotional chaos, and i don’t think it’s helping the state of society (also: the idea that having equanimity right now is “inappropriate” (nevermind “unattainable”) is a cheap move. it says that anyone who is capable of that mode and chooses it is somehow causing an offense of sorts to their neighbors… it’s creating an “enemy” class, and doing so with the exact people who are most likely to be effective and helpful amid chaos. lots more to say on this). I took the above quoted bit as basically against my default mode of being. a rejection of stoicism, emotional resilience, equanimity, etc. So if the author is going to reject my mode, i think it’s fair that I respond by rejecting his.