Against Fearing Home Cooks by Devin Kate Pope
The U.S. food system disconnects people from their food and each other. When a home kitchen invokes fear, doesn’t that say more about what we think of our neighbors than any truth about cleanliness?
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Public Spaces, Private Lives by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick
[P]eople are afraid to take the bus because of “crime” and “safety” when murder and crime are dropping — but fears of personal safety continue to climb. The brain infection that Trump implanted into popular culture … has infected everyone, making us all feel that someone is going to shoot us and steal all of your money when you leave your house, which is why walking is now seen as too scary an activity.
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From the Storm to the Stormtroopers by Timothy Snyder
In impotence politics, nothing is true except our emotions, and so we cannot see the sources of problems, and do not really expect to solve them. Once we accept that government is useless, we respond to crisis by turning against one another. Politics then begins not from improving life together but by choosing an enemy within.
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The worthless ones of immense value by Antonia Malchik
Power has always dehumanized, un-peopled. Power has always needed to sever our relations from the rest of the living world as the first step to exploitation, and the first step to severing our relationships from one another. That’s what power does. Maybe part of revoking its stolen authority requires us not just to fight without, but to reclaim our own worlds within.
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On feeling connected by Henrik Karlsson
[S]eeing giving as a sacrifice is a step up from the full zero-sum thinking of the “unproductive.” But there is a deeper level still: people who think of giving as an act of potency.
When I give of myself, when I genuinely care about others, I generate a feeling of connection, a feeling that is closely related to love. This is a feeling we often long for. And it is common to think it is something we must receive—that to feel a connection, we must find someone who sees us and who cares about our authentic self. But what people who see giving as an act of potency realize is that this feeling of a loving connection is something you can produce yourself.
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