John Tillotson, Anglican Archbishop, preaches on equity. Bettering the condition of humanity preserves the reputation of the gospel. Dealing justly with others preserves our peace.
Today, some Christians seem to paint all complaints against them as the cross they bear for the lord. Some would cut the tie between the reputation of the Gospel and the condition of mankind.
How can you show love for God?
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work against each other is contrary to nature; and resentment and rejection count as working against someone.
[γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν: ἀντιπρακτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7491…
"Can you imagine libraries of tools, clothing, and even housing? The library economy can be the bridge to an entirely new world of human flourishing. Let's explore what the library economy is, what may or may not be included, and what it might take to bring it to life."
How Library Economies Work
https://youtu.be/vW5EVNT--DA
Covid, pandemic precautions, and public health measures are minimized and ignored partly because they reveal a biological level of mutuality and interrelationality they cannot be denied.
Your atomized bubble doesn't actually exist. Ironically, if you wanna go on believing as such, your best option is to wear a mask.
"Indigenous Mutual Aid organizing challenges "charity" models of organizing and relief support that historically have treated our communities as "victims" and only furthered dependency and stripped our autonomy from us. We organize counter to non-profit capitalists who maintain neo-colonial institutions and we reject the NGO-ization and non-profit commodification of mutual aid.
While solidarity means actively and meaningfully supporting each other, it also doesn't mean blind illusions of "unity" or that we must flatten out the diverse cultural and political ways and views that each of us maintains. There are some necessary tensions and factions in our communities and in radical Indigenous politics.
Some Indigenous non-profits such as the NDN "Collective" and Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-10 Relief Fund (NHFCRF) have made millions of dollars from relief efforts in response to this pandemic. Relief has become big business while root causes are reinforced and further entrenched. To illustrate the disconnect of analysis, the NHFCRF started distributing coal for Diné and Hopi families to burn to stay warm in the cold depths of winter. Others are proposing a "revolutionary Indigenous socialist" agenda in an academic vanguard charge to proletarianize Indigenous ways through redwashed Marxism.
This re-contextualizing of Marx and Engels' political reactions to European capitalism does nothing to forward Indigenous autonomy. The process inherently alienates diverse and complex Indigenous social compositions by compelling them to act as subjects of an authoritarian revolutionary framework based on class and industrial production. Indigenous collectivities and mutuality exists in ways that leftist political ideologues can't and refuse to imagine. As to do so would conflict with the primary architecture their world is built on, and no matter how it's re-visioned, the science of dialectical materialism isn't a science produced by Indigenous thinking. Colonial politics from both the left and the right are still colonial politics...
Indigenous Mutual Aid is not just about redistributing resources, it's about radical redistribution of power, to restore our lifeways, heal our communities, and the land."
- Klee Benally, "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred", pages 309-311
"The answer at this current moment is austerity and liberalism. Austerity creates the conditions that make us miserable and concerned with our survival, and liberalism gives us the ideology that only worrying about ourselves in such a landscape is not only expedient but morally good..."
Why Is Everyone So Mean?
https://youtu.be/9XJa8Ul58U0?si=7dYx8ygaj5blPASd
Robert South was an Anglican writer and preacher. Here he talks about keeping the peace. He says that one who is oppressing widows, and is grinding the face of the poor, is no less a disturber of the peace than someone who forages the country with an army.
Some today may be more upset that talking about the poor is merely disturbing the peace.
How can you keep the peace?
!["And he is no less a disturber of the peace, and a breaker of this law [to live peaceably], who oppresses the widow, and grinds the face of the fatherless and the poor, than he who forages a country with an army."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/467/105/456/179/035/original/eddf7096043946d2.png "\"And he is no less a disturber of the peace, and a breaker of this law [to live peaceably], who oppresses the widow, and grinds the face of the fatherless and the poor, than he who forages a country with an army.\"")
The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy
"The #PreColonial #Indonesian notion of personhood diverges from a western conceptualisation and is expressed instead through #cooperation, #mutuality, #sharing, #caring, and a readiness to #negotiate and #compromise – all of which are characteristics that are associated with feminine qualities and were thus considered inferior according to #Eurocentric understandings of the #subordination of women in #WesternSociety"
by Desi Dwi Prianti
03 Nov 2019
"[In this paper] I argue that a hierarchical structure between masculine and the feminine was introduced by the #Dutch #colonisers – a structure in which they considered themselves to represent the superior, masculine side of the binary, whereas the colonised were seen as their effeminate subjects."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112
A quotation from Colton, Charles Caleb:
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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/72565/
A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.:
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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jerome-jerome-k/71962/
A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:
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FRIENDSHIP. A mutual belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, hobgoblins and imbecilities.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/mencken-hl/70843/
A quotation from Swift, Jonathan:
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Conversation is but carving;
Carve for all, yourself is starving:
Give no more to every Guest,
Than he’s able to digest;
Give him always of the Prime;
And but little at a Time.
Carve to all but just enough:
Let them neither starve nor stuff:
And, that you may have your Due,
Let your Neighbours carve for you.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/68207/
A quotation from Austen, Jane:
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/austen-jane/64371/
A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon:
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Don’t spit in the soup. We’ve all got to eat.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/21343/
A quotation from Thomas a Kempis:
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Now, God has thus ordered things that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient in himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/7265/
