Camp Grounded commodified Buddhist mindfulness into a paid digital detox camp
Evidence
On the way back from his travels, Felix and Dean noticed that “every restaurant, every bar, every cafe, every bus, every subway was filled with people looking at their screens.” Compelled to share the mindfulness they had discovered abroad, they opened Camp Grounded, a digital detox summer camp for adults in Mendocino, California. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 132
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: digital detox as the packaging and resale of a cultural practice it claims to escape — leisure capitalism absorbing its own critique.
- XREF: connects to: Digital detox retreats function as productivity life hacks, not true escapes — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 129; Gratitude practice can cure the psychosis of endless consumption — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1394; Camps experimentally eliminate spontaneity to transform humans into mere things — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 981
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Digital detox retreats function as productivity life hacks, not true escapes — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 129; Gratitude practice can cure the psychosis of endless consumption — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1394; Camps experimentally eliminate spontaneity to transform humans into mere things — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 981
Broader Connections
- Gratitude practice can cure the psychosis of endless consumption
#complicates(0.78) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1394 - Camps experimentally eliminate spontaneity to transform humans into mere things
#complicates(0.74) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 981