#goo read

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-tangpingist-manifesto

I was giving a round on TikTok and I learned about Tangpingist, it immediately connected with an idea I have been thinking about lately, last year I decided to be mediocre in my day by day job, I realise that I didn’t have the need to give the best of me to a company that really doesn’t give a shit about my well-being.

So when I learn that there are more people thinking the same, and calling it a revolution I felt so good.

I just started to read this manifest, but check this out: “The lifestyle he detailed was a kind of traveller/drop-out culture with an emphasis on spending as little time at work as possible. In the posts he shared stories of how, rather than grind himself to a pulp in order to live up to the expectations of the dominant culture, and become weighed down by its commodities, he had been happily unemployed for two years. In that time he found that an affordable diet, and modest living conditions were more than sufficient as they allowed him the time to pursue other more worthwhile activities, like cycling from Sichuan to Tibet, climbing mountains, and reading philosophy.”

I’m all in. I quit the last September, got an easier job, and then with that time I got an even easier job with better pay.

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