Morton 185: "Western scholarship can now say 'mindfulness' [...] because neoliberalism loves mindfulness."
"Mindfulness turns the practitioner into a maniacally active worker who now has a whole new job to do both at work and at home, namely to remain calm. Scholarship continues to be incapable of saying 'awareness'"
"One doesn't act awareness, it happens to one" (186)
186: "mindfulness is not definitely good. Often mindfulness can be quite bad. There are people who are very mindful, totally calm, lacking any anxiety, who can even slice things open mindfully. They are called psychopaths. Doing things mindfully is not in and of itself necessarily great, which is why it seems to fit perfectly the murder-suicide culture of neoliberalism. Awareness [by contrast] might occur to a psychopath as the sudden pang of a conscience that he or she never even knew he or she had, experienced like the voice of a god"