There is something not quite right here. I mean not that you are not without good ideas, but the foundation of stability does look rather like Maslow's Peak again. The way is surely for someone to be in a symbiotic connected community, a village even - AND then they can meet their needs for job, financial security. Otherwise I am troubled by the ever seeking perfection BEFORE engagement. However I do recognize the burnouts, broken relationships, chronic poverty that affects too many activists. There is also mental issues and suicides too. Relationships can be fraught with people who try too much to do too much. I think that the love thy neighbor as thyself exhortation is relevant here.
I do think something about balance can be written for academics, activists, those overly focused on businesses too. AND yet those marginalised and excluded should also give and have agency to build and change and improve. Will Ruddick's commitment pools builds in some limitations in this way. ANd the Community Currencies can also limit as you must give and get not only one. So I think more mechanisms can be explored how to take care of people so they are functioning in society and in their lives.
Not sure exactly what's not right? Sounds like Maslow's Hierarchy? No perfection, just reality here. In Sarvodaya, unlike the West, inner spiritual development and satisfying basic needs like hunger are done simultaneously. As I described in Section 1, Maslow inverted the proper hierarchy of indigenous people to fit within a linear growth paradigm.
But I Iive in the West and I have met people that are "spiritual first" and put other needs as a lower priority. For example the starving artist is an example. Despite the German phrase Fressen vor Moralen - eat before you worry about beliefs I do see many that share this perspective and are not materialistic even to the point of living in precarity rather than compromise. I think that they can be invisible in a way. If you do not buy or participate in consumerism then you are not represented in the statistics.
There is something not quite right here. I mean not that you are not without good ideas, but the foundation of stability does look rather like Maslow's Peak again. The way is surely for someone to be in a symbiotic connected community, a village even - AND then they can meet their needs for job, financial security. Otherwise I am troubled by the ever seeking perfection BEFORE engagement. However I do recognize the burnouts, broken relationships, chronic poverty that affects too many activists. There is also mental issues and suicides too. Relationships can be fraught with people who try too much to do too much. I think that the love thy neighbor as thyself exhortation is relevant here.
I do think something about balance can be written for academics, activists, those overly focused on businesses too. AND yet those marginalised and excluded should also give and have agency to build and change and improve. Will Ruddick's commitment pools builds in some limitations in this way. ANd the Community Currencies can also limit as you must give and get not only one. So I think more mechanisms can be explored how to take care of people so they are functioning in society and in their lives.
Not sure exactly what's not right? Sounds like Maslow's Hierarchy? No perfection, just reality here. In Sarvodaya, unlike the West, inner spiritual development and satisfying basic needs like hunger are done simultaneously. As I described in Section 1, Maslow inverted the proper hierarchy of indigenous people to fit within a linear growth paradigm.
But I Iive in the West and I have met people that are "spiritual first" and put other needs as a lower priority. For example the starving artist is an example. Despite the German phrase Fressen vor Moralen - eat before you worry about beliefs I do see many that share this perspective and are not materialistic even to the point of living in precarity rather than compromise. I think that they can be invisible in a way. If you do not buy or participate in consumerism then you are not represented in the statistics.
Love re-villaging. This short set of reflections might be a useful example to pull out steps, protocols, functions for your re-villaging ideas.
https://open.substack.com/pub/willruddick/p/grassroots-economics-the-book-is
Great hear from you Will. Congrats on your book. Let’s chat sometime to discover more about supporting each other’s work of heart.
Seeing a lot of overlap with how Hannah Taylor talks about this too - https://hannahtaylor.substack.com/p/four-premises-of-the-village-principles