I know *a lot* of culturally and intellectually secular people who are adopting religion just to have some semblance of a safety net built on being seen, understood and cared for as an individual rather than just being a diligent taxpayer or someone who constantly upskills
Shower thought: while Gofundme is probably generally a good thing, it really relies on commodifying one's situation to meet a new market for community participation as a kind of luxury good literally purchased in dollars
Volunteerism is typically pretty good for people and a lot closer to the mark, but it still relies on a very clear persisting distinction between "helper" and "helped" that doesn't seem to be so readily salient in the healthiest families/friendships/microcommunities
People seem a lot better off when the ways they give help and receive help are fluid and generally nonmonetary, such that they don't have to allow themselves to be bilked by consistent game-players or feel like they're a "drain" on some system themselves
Disclaimer: most things/services that people need can be bought with money. Trade is not bad. Money is not bad. Donating money is not bad. It's very good! I just think a lot of people are running up against the challenges of overly explicitly/scalably organizing social primates
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I think everyone will find something to dislike in my take on Dylan Mulvaney, which is that there is obviously a desperate cultural thirst for someone, anyone, to just wholeheartedly enjoy being a girl in a way that is politically acceptable — and this is probably a good thing!
I do find it reductive and a little bit embarrassing, but man, the culture we have has got to start somewhere. The idea that there is *anything* good about femininity has been MIA for what, a decade? Longer?
While I'm digging my hole, I think trad culture could probably take a note here because a lot of it does come across as very... Girlboss, But With Apron. At times, it delves into "our way is better because it takes 20x as long and hurts." This is not the way, not always
My mom's home in Oregon is being seized by "friends" who she allowed in a few months ago, who now refuse to leave & have literally stolen keys to her outbuildings. It's impossible to navigate her rights & obligations because local housing lawyers are booked up w similar conflicts
They moved two additional people in; mom can't afford to go anywhere else, so she has four people who live rent free in her house and glower at her as they go to and fro, leaving their dishes for her to clean and taking hour-long showers
You cannot imagine how bad tenant-landlord law is in some of these coastal states
If you think this is an exaggeration, you may not fully grok the scope of this program as it *already* exists after just 5 years commonsense.news/p/scheduled-to…
To be clear, Canada won't allow the first assisted mental illness suicides until next year
To my mind, this is just one segment of a completely unavoidable slippery slope once you eliminate the requirement for terminal illness/foreseeability of death, as Canada has done