david on care and freedom take 2
david graeber on david on care and freedom take 2
via tweet [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/2061996177319407853?s=20]:
image and this from dgi: Honestly, if our economic system doesn’t take care of the elderly, the disabled, and others in need while those in care work (like nurses) live in poverty and have no free time, then what is even the point of having an economy?
from david on care and freedom (first take):
but care.. which is something we don’t often recognize.. is closely related to the notion of freedom..you take care of a child so the child can go and play.. that’s what children actually do when you take care of them..
graeber care/free law so care = set/keep free..
play is action done for its own sake.. it’s in a way the very paradigm of freedom.. because action done for its own sake is what freedom really consists of .. play and freedom are ultimately the same thing
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
so the ‘care’ we need most is that unconditionality of legit free ness..
pearson unconditional law: what is it about loving each other unconditionally that scares us so much – come sunday (pearson)
ie: art/play (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as global re\set.. to fittingness (undisturbed ecosystem).. the dance
so we need to think.. what are ways that we can care for each other that will make each other more free and who are the people who are providing that care.. and how can they be *compensated themselves w greater freedom..
*that’s diff .. yay.. but not really compensate because that starts the whole tit for tat ness measuring things ness.. but yeah.. we need the conditions for us all to be legit free.. aka: sans any form of m\a\p
bishop freedom law.. aka: let go.. of any form of m\a\p.. and try/see the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
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nika on david’s care and freedom
david and nika on museum of care
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