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They're benefiting from a capitalist system. Not sure they're pronouncing that one should be an overt capitalist though? (Peterson's emphasis on career is irksome for sure.)
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The way to begin to frame self-care in leftist terms is to acknowledge it is a collective endeavor as much as a personal one. No idea how to accomplish that at a time when we're all "bowling alone"... but the digital infraestructure for it already exists.
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To a certain extent 'self-care' _could_ be collective. Up until one wishes another to follow a certain path. Carl Rogers - I think - found that one can't help someone who simply does not want to be helped. What is the collective to do then?
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If you want to make something appeal to or justifiable for the left just add the word "radical"
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Post-radical xenoresponsibility.
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Seems to me you are simply asking them to adopt your particular model of agency. Sophisticated leftists might just say they want us to seek co-responsibility in a world where no entity is an island. Care of self and care of other may just be co-extensive.
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So, what do you _do_ whilst waiting for your form of collective support agency to arrive/become? Nothing.
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I don’t understand the question.
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You want a collective support network that can be mutually beneficial for all in terms of progression, yes? And that doesn't exist at the moment, so, what do you do until then?
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We have to unpack that a whole lot, but in the broadest sense, yes. Mutually beneficial networks that serve what I believe would be objective societal progress. And I do have those kinds of networks. Family, neo-tribe, my community partners, and national level social securities.
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I live in Canada, so I’m part of a semi-social system of interlocking networks already. All my healthcare needs are free as fuck, most of my education was provided for me, and there are supports in place if anything should happen to my employment.
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Ps- there are examples of non-capitalist modes of existence and self-organizing from all over the world (less so now than in the last 100 years of anthro study). I hope your not saying right-wing models of capitalist agency are the only possible succ style of being in the world?
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Self-care/self-improvement is already a radical act, in a society that wants to see you reduced to whatever quantitative "value" you can produce.
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'Improvement' implies something can become better than it previously was, which implies an objective hierarchy. Lefties no like this
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Well that's just being immature and using leftism as an excuse.
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And again, I'm framing it as a question of survival, remember that story a little while ago about how the reason boomers are so conservative is because the leftist ones died young? That's something modern leftists should really be thinking about.
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I don't remember that story, link?
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Let me see...
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Well seems it was partially confabulation on my part, the story wasn't about leftists dying young but about poor people dying young. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-people-often-dont-survive-to-become-seniors-who-vote.html … Still, my point still applies I think, no use having radical ideas if you're gonna die young due to poverty.
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