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