Solidarity between catastrophic singularity and disastrous individualism — Against Catastrophe

The catastrophe I want, to use your phrase, is one provoked when the people demand — and the system can’t deliver on — two really important, very pragmatic sets of rights. The rights of Mother Earth, and the right of people to have access to the resources required to create productive, dignified, and ecologically sustainable livelihoods.

Our crises are material and profoundly collective, and so, ultimately, we will be able to bear unbearable realities only if we also work to change them.

Sometimes trauma is a collective experience, in which case our approaches for mending must be collective and communal as well.

Overcoming alienation and isolation or their causes is a political goal for the rest of us.

“alien from capitalistic norms of individualism, competition, the belief in endless economic growth, and accumulation, among others, exist ‘here and now’ in the interstices of modern capitalist societies.”

a certain sense, I suspect the bypassing of traumatic grief may be the greatest threat facing humankind today, responsible for immense suffering from addictions and abuse to social disconnection and perhaps even war. When we disconnect from our grief, we disconnect from ourselves. When we disconnect from ourselves, we disconnect from others and fro