Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
we grew up and got it drilled into us that the problem is dependence. Don’t be needy.
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.
Ted C
... See moreThat ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to
... See moreDazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
We take part in rugged cooperation every day. And businesses can be run with rugged cooperation, too.
Tara McMullin • Hope Beyond Rugged Individualism
Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
rayne fisher-quanninternetprincess.substack.com
fuck this hits so hard. "The process of becoming yourself is not a corporate desk job, and it is not homework. You do not have to treat your flaws like action items that must be systematically targeted in order to receive a return on investment."
In the United Nations’ IPCC most recent climate change mitigation report, the word “lifestyle” appears 193 times. The authors write, “The acceptability of collective social change over a longer term towards less resource intensive lifestyles, however, depends on the social mandate for change. This mandate can be built through public participation,
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