Gratitude practice can cure the psychosis of endless consumption

Evidence

Each of us comes from people who were once indigenous. We can reclaim our membership in the cultures of gratitude that formed our old relationships with the living earth. Gratitude is a powerful antidote to Windigo psychosis. A deep awareness of the gifts of the earth and of each other is medicine. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1394

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the Windigo as uncontrolled positive feedback loop from ch75 and the manufactured scarcity of ch93; this is the closing therapeutic turn of the ethic. — connects to: Commodified food severs the gratitude that makes eating nourishing — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 113; Gratitude-based contentment subverts the consumer economy that depends on manufactured desire — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 392; Modern individualism structurally erodes the capacity for gratitude — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 496 (+3 more)
• SEED: For the eco-justice/anthropocene article angle: gratitude as a concrete pedagogical and civic counter-discipline to consumer Windigo culture — framing wealth as having enough to share.

Broader Connections

• Most consumer goods satisfy psychological cravings rather than felt deprivations #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 389
• Modern individualism structurally erodes the capacity for gratitude #expands (0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 496
• The compulsion to consume everything newest replaces rational need with anxiety about falling behind #corroborates (0.75)
• Gratitude in folklore can demand the ultimate sacrifice of life itself #contradicts (0.72) — , A Year of World Stories, 8823