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…
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"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
#Andrewism #Anarchism #LibraryEconomy #Conviviality #Mutuality #Usufruct
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
#KleeBenally #MutualAid #Mutuality #IndigenousAnarchy #Anarchism #IndigenousMutualAid
"Authority being rationalized by filial piety is furthered by the rectification of names as the ruler is conceptualized as a "parent" of the nation, and the subjects are like children. Just as a child should respect and obey their parents, so a citizen should respect and obey the State. Confucius stated that social harmony was dependent on everyone fulfilling their given role within society. A parent ought to act as a parent and a child ought to act as a child, just as a ruler ought to act as a ruler and the subject to act as a subject.
This philosophy is instrumental in legitimizing the hierarchies of culture and the authority of the State, as it obliges individuals to adhere to their societal positions and roles without challenging their worldview. Disobedience to the family is equated with social chaos, just as disobedience to the State is seen as a threat to societal order. In this framework, the ruler’s authority is considered natural and just, much like a parent’s authority in the household. By teaching that questioning authority, whether parental or political, leads to disharmony and disorder, filial piety actively discourages resistance to the State and upholds authoritarian ideals.
This becomes a form of ideological control where defying the State is seen not only as a political transgression but also as a moral failure to fulfill one’s role within society. Filial piety, then, serves as the cultural foundation for a hierarchical worldview that benefits those in the ruling class, ensuring that citizens internalize and perpetuate structures that keep the State in control."
A Critique of Filial Piety and the Traditional East Asian Family Model
https://anarchistnews.org/content/critique-filial-piety-and-traditional-east-asian-family-model
#AsianAnarchism #Anarchism #YouthLiberation #Mutuality #Horizontality #FamilyDynamics
"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
#Liberalism #Alienation #Atomization #Mutuality #Interrelationality #Sociality
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?
#christian #historyteacher #givepeaceachance #mutuality #ingodwetrust
!["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)
What Societies Need to Survive
https://youtu.be/qkN_nQPpeSU?si=oJXkMLcI8ReoWi61
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #adversity #alliance #friendship #mutuality #togetherness
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #collective #humanity #labor #mutuality #work
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #belief #delusion #error #friend #friendship #mutuality
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.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/swift-jonathan/68207/
#quote #quotes #quotation #conversation #dialog #discussion #host #mutuality #service #talking
📢 NEW WEBSITE DoUtDes™ Cyber-Ethics 📢
www.doutdescyberethics.eu
Do ut Des: Roman civil law principle - I give [#Do] for [#ut] you to give [#DES] me based on #mutuality
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Human digital #Safety should be a basic human right and we need to #collectively get engaged, and offer novel systemic security frameworks to people and businesses.
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #amusement #community #disrespect #entertainment #gossip #humor #meaningoflife #mutuality #ridicule
if you're teaching it, you're being it.
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #benefit #collaboration #collateraldamage #cooperation #governance #mutuality #politics #toxicity
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #assistance #burden #interdependence #mutuality #help #selfsufficiency #neighbor
