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Chapter 3 – A Politics of Kindness

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  • July 29, 2020 at 2:25 pm #1159
    Mike Chitty
    Keymaster

    Poverty and Health

    Inequality and Health and Social Outcomes

    Chronic Stress, Inequality and Health

    Social Divisions

    Social Capital and Health

    Happiness, Health and Kindness

    Political Implications

    The Politics of Ambivalence: Lessons from the US

    August 16, 2020 at 4:16 pm #1231
    Rachel Pilling
    Participant

    “Attack with financial weapons”
    “Fight social injustice”
    “Tear down the barriers”

    Where is the language of kindness in here?

    Reducing inequality is depicted almost universally as a battle.

    If intelligent kindness is the solution, we need a new lexicon.

    Kindness is personal; it is felt; experienced; there is a connection between the giver and receiver. If we rely on the state, the remote deduction of income via taxes, the algorithmic redistribution via anonymous institutions…we lose that. Connectedness seems key for the positive aspects to be felt by both, or even either, party.

    So if intelligent kindness is to underpin social change, how do we integrate the personal element with the undeniably important role ‘the state’ has in coordinating our acts.

    August 20, 2020 at 11:17 am #1237
    Mike Chitty
    Keymaster

    Good spot Rachel.

    Do we frame this in terms of things to fight? Or things to seek?

    So we might choose to fight inequalities or produce justice.

    Personally I think we need to both undermine what is wrong and build what os right…

    Some of us are motivated to fight – others to create… perhaps we can extend kinship to both and manage the impact of language on ourselves and others?

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