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the physical and emotional and existential loneliness of modern life, or even the search for meaning and purpose in life. The solution, according to Day—love—must come about through active engagement in community, not just being an individual actor alongside other actors in an increasingly impersonal society.
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Ones that give us time, basic needs met as guarantees. A basic income, a 30 (or 20) hour work week, guarantee health care and paid leave, reducing the scale of corporate power in tech, entertainment, advertising by immensely taxing corporate wealth/revenue (not just profits) and by limiting their ability to take over our public spaces and airwaves, fighting for union power, fighting automakers/car culture, fighting suburban developers, and so many more policies that actually foster and enable genuine social infrastructure.
✏️ All these things consume us.. Consume our money, time and attention. No amount of individual actions will be able to counter the behemoth systemic oppressions in place, and it’s insulting and manipulative when leaders suggest it’s possible and only in our hands. Think about how we don’t have public spaces. Think about how media consumes our attention with addictive tactics. It’s not just our fault, or simply on us to deal with. 🔗 View Highlight
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social and economic realities make it too difficult for the vast majority of people to develop healthy social lives.
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whenever we are told to “do more of something,” we should ask whether society is creating the conditions for us to do that thing (assuming that thing is indeed good).
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That would require us to commit to all people’s sexual freedom. For that, we need a lot of things that we simply don’t have now: more free time and less work, comprehensive sexuality education, healthcare for all (including free pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and contraception), free abortion on demand, equality of gender and of relationship forms (an end to patriarchal “family values”), and an end to moral panics which stigmatize and essentially criminalize people for being LGBTQ
✏️ Good example of previous highlight about telling people to do something, but not having the society infrastructure for it. Tell people to have more sex for their health and loneliness? Well you need all these things for that first. 🔗 View Highlight