Saved by Keely Adler
Hope Beyond Rugged Individualism
I study resilience as it relates to disaster response, and contemporary scholars are more or less in agreement that the concept of resilience is used as a way to place responsibility that belongs with the government onto individuals and communities that are hit the hardest by various extreme events (almost always low income communities of color). O... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
the tension between the value of the individual and the concept of joining. ‘The mindset of the last few decades of capitalism telling us that we create our individual identities through the choices that we make in the marketplace is the opposite energy from ‘I’m joining a party.’’
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Alienation has become a plague: Many Americans no longer believe in America. That’s largely because, I argue here, they no longer have the freedom to take responsibility in their daily choices. Persistent failures feed the frustration and seed a culture of distrust. Instead of focusing on how to make things work, Americans obsess about what might g
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