117 - Living Well and Lying Flat

This week we ask ourselves: What is the good life? American men are dropping out of the above board workforce in huge numbers, while women are increasing their numbers. We talk about the Buen Vivir movement and the tensions between Deep Ecology and Social Ecology, with David channeling cranky Bookchin. In China, workers are celebrating Tangping, or Lying Flat, in response to brutal work schedules. What does it mean to work? To rest? To care for oneself in a broken world? Ya know, just some light conversation among friends.

7 Ways men living without working in America:

https://news.yahoo.com/7-ways-men-live-without-working-in-america-092147068.html

Enough is Enough:

https://annamercury.medium.com/enough-is-enough-5dcb30b52b94

Buen Vivir:

https://theconversation.com/buen-vivir-south-americas-rethinking-of-the-future-we-want-44507

Tangping, or lying flat:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/world/asia/china-slackers-tangping.html

Deep ecology vs social ecology

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/socecovdeepeco.html

http://gudynas.com/wp-content/uploads/GudynasBiocentricAndesR17-1.pdf 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800916308771

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000640