All of this is predicated on some clear and present danger. Is there some? Where?
Every time someone tests airport security, the tests reveal massive holes and the terrifying ease with which security can be avoided. And yet, we have no terrorism.
We have a massive bureaucratic system of threat avoidance -- and we seem to be missing a threat.
This strikes me as popular, feel-good philosophy. The world is already awash in such faux highbrow, emotionally driven "science".
> "He believes all beings are interdependent, and speculates that everything in the universe has a kind of consciousness, from algae and boulders to knives and forks."
Just because something is fanciful, or gives rise to warm fuzzy feelings of universality, spiritual "one-ness" and egalitarianism, does not make it logical or true. Morton seems to be channeling prior generations of "Gaia" believers, who also personified and deified a universal ecosystem (because it felt good to do so.)
I am not surprised that Mr. Morton has a following in the low-logic, high-bullsh*t, pseudo-intellectual world of art. Or that Björk is his champion.
... Cue the believers telling me that I "just don't understand"...
Was it the right choice? I'm still not sure. I was certainly less stressed about money afterwards. But I was also left feeling like I probably short circuited many more meaningful (and profitable) levels of success. How much would we have been worth? I'll never know.
But... looking back on it... If I had it to do over again, I probably would have made the same call.
I know exactly where you're at.
Here's the question: What else do you have going on that gives you hope, enthusiasm and energy?
If the answer is "nothing". Don't do the deal.
If you have a list of other things in your life, or things you want to try. Do it.
This is the web. Not a video game.
Accessibility is mission critical.