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The Self-Improvement Lie
The Self-Improvement Lie

While there is *obvious value in being self directed and having personal goals, for anyone who has ever struggled in this current system knows that essentially in order to get out if any struggle, we must rely on others. In other words - to be our best selves we must depend on others.

Literally all of science and anthropology has proven that we are a communal species - at no point in human history have we *ever been some lone wolf organism.

Sure there are examples of ascetecism:

Men often historically require an inititiattion into manhood, to seperate from the "mother" archetype into men. which likely explains why our patriarchal dominant society favours capitalism and individualist libertarianism (in contrast to anarchist DIY ethos of self empowerment to better the community)

Figures like Buddha or Throroux isolating themselves to find a personal truth - but even in the classic Zen Buddhist "Ox Herding Pictures", eventually we must all return to "the market" aka, the Commons.

Keep in mind in both these examples this type ofn

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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster. The book is intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work.
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.