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[tielan]

Various links, political, faith-based; some from the US perspective, some from an Aus.

COVID19 and the Limits of American Moral Reasoning: note, I haven't read this, but it was recommended by Pantsuit Politics and they always have good thoughts on these things.

When You Feel You Can't Win: another not-read; just put here for later viewing.

"Clean Food" is not possible for everyone as things stand right now.
A good point on privilege that isn't often acknowledged by permaculturists or even regenerative ag proponents.

Exit The Echo Chamber: some advice for Christians
How Christianity Changed The Way We Thank
There's Always Some Dude On A Horse (And It's Definitely Not Jesus)

Tribute to Pterry

Australian Childcare in crisis: largely because they effing privatised the system, so it's all about the money now.

Australian readers on searching for work in the COVID recession

Comments

[havocthecat]

That "clean food" link especially makes me happy, and I wish more people (especially on my Facebook, for example) would acknowledge that instead of sanctimoniously talking about their meat purchases at the farmer's market butcher. Like, the meat is good, but it's PRICEY, homg, I cannot afford to get all my meat from those guys, I would never eat meat, like, ever.

Also I hate to say it, but I have a very specific loathing for the phrase "clean food," because it means literally nothing and everything, because it's. so. vague. I love food! I love good food! But I kind of feel like "clean food" is a non-specific thing that can mean anything. My dance teacher takes her clean eating as gluten free and sugar free, except when its not, and red meat free, except when she wants red meat, and other people have whole grains in their clean eating, and some- you get the idea.

[tielan]

I think a lot of the words that might have had meaning thirty years ago have gotten muddied in the time between.

A lot of the true 'clean living' movements are forty to fifty years old. When we think about those pioneers, the thirty-somethings who developed them are now pushing seventy and eighty, and we've inherited their language but not the environment that they lived in, or the society that thought they were 'weird out-there hippies'.

It's a different landscape, and I think that a lot of people fail to recognise the context of it. Also, our society right now is really big on purity binaries, and very few acknowledge the need for "moderation in all things...including moderation". Sometimes we need to go all-out against stuff, and sometimes we need to say "we can do this, but not that" and say "it's not good, but it's good enough" with a side helping of "and it's what we can do".