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The way we live in the United States is not normal.
We live in an extremely individualistic culture, where we are constantly pushed to see our problems as individual failings, and to seek out individual solutions.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
But many people in the U.S. are facing a very different reality: they are being left out. They are being left behind. They are at the breaking point. They feel overwhelmed by disruption, and they are unable to keep up with the pace of change. Put plainly, they spend most of their time frightened about the future.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
We feel paralyzed because we fear that our institutions and leaders are no longer able to operate and the solutions require many to act against their own immediate interests. We strive to make more people and communities capital-efficient and market-friendly even as the water level rises. The logic of the market has overtaken most of our waking liv
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We know what we are “supposed” to do—eat more vegetables and move our body, practice mindfulness, rest and get enough sleep, address mental and physical health issues, deal with our unresolved shit. All of which is nearly impossible in the culture created by the American Dream, which sucks up our time, doesn’t adequately resource most of us, and ma
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