Psychomaterial leftismQuite the tag team of psychic pressures being exerted on this ideological space. Cross currents. Several fronts active at once. Keep the momentum, but not at the cost of a materially grounded progressivism.
-- sterilising the poor while Luka's drinking whisky.Dear Stan, I meant to write you sooner, but I just been busy—
I like the idea of a perpetual re-conceptualization engine, but I think we'd be better off aiming for solutions, albeit an infinite chain of them.Conceptronica but for progressivism. No actual solutions, just re-conceptualizations.
No final solutions, that is...I like the idea of a perpetual re-conceptualization engine, but I think we'd be better off aiming for solutions, albeit an infinite chain of them.
I've not been following this, but even if they're not starving, the poor are almost always malnourished and often live in food deserts where fresh produce is rare, cheap, ultraprocessed food abundant. Leads to chronic health problems, and then we get into the uninsured and medical debt.
Geographically, that's going to be difficult to make it pay in the backwoods, bayous, and marginal neighbourhoods. I hear Amazon doesn't deliver everywhere in the States lately. Better to grow crops and rear animals in situ. Regenerative agriculture. It'll give people something to do when the Internet browns out.Do you think this can be countered to any meaningful extent by produce delivery services? Some like Misfits or Imperfect produce would make for affordable options, I would imagine.
Well, first, there's this assumption that it's people below the poverty line who are rioting and fueling the days of rage. How true is this actually?
What problem is that third?