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A review by justinlife
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
3.25
This book is a dream. It's a lovely dream and a challenging one. It starts off strong with a good sense of how to change how we perceive care and how we can prioritize it. As the book continued and the reach became global, the book felt more like an idea without much direction.
The premise of this short book is that we've become a society that has deprioritized care and community and it offers a vision of what a society would look like if we did the opposite. It tackles the local, national, and international politics and challenges the reader with examples of how we can restructure our society by prioritizing care.
At its best, it's reassuring and helps refocus and recenter the worldview to see how we can be better stewards of our community. At its worst, it's a daydream looking beyond, showing what a world would look like by prioritizing that care but also without the resistance that would come from such a push.
Books like this are important because they should challenge how we perceive the world and the economy. They allow the ideas the space to float freely. Others should pick up where this book left off and build upon it.
What was hard to deal with was the paths and plans shown were created with a lack of resistance and that all democratic societies have the best interest for everybody in mind. Democracies tend to focus on what the majority wants and needs with little room for the minorities. That's why it's important for those checks such as the supreme court in the us that, at its best, can counter to protect the minority. In this book, the fully democratic governments and leaders take care of everyone. There's no corruption or resistance.
There were also a lot of "we need to"statements particularly when shifting to national and international levels. It gets difficult to focus and becomes frustrating because those statements are unhelpful. I need to work out, but by saying it in that way, I lose the interest and I've made no path to do it.
While I didn't agree with everything, I was glad to have read it. It's good to challenge my politic and to see how I can regroup and reshape it. I think it's worth a read.
The premise of this short book is that we've become a society that has deprioritized care and community and it offers a vision of what a society would look like if we did the opposite. It tackles the local, national, and international politics and challenges the reader with examples of how we can restructure our society by prioritizing care.
At its best, it's reassuring and helps refocus and recenter the worldview to see how we can be better stewards of our community. At its worst, it's a daydream looking beyond, showing what a world would look like by prioritizing that care but also without the resistance that would come from such a push.
Books like this are important because they should challenge how we perceive the world and the economy. They allow the ideas the space to float freely. Others should pick up where this book left off and build upon it.
What was hard to deal with was the paths and plans shown were created with a lack of resistance and that all democratic societies have the best interest for everybody in mind. Democracies tend to focus on what the majority wants and needs with little room for the minorities. That's why it's important for those checks such as the supreme court in the us that, at its best, can counter to protect the minority. In this book, the fully democratic governments and leaders take care of everyone. There's no corruption or resistance.
There were also a lot of "we need to"statements particularly when shifting to national and international levels. It gets difficult to focus and becomes frustrating because those statements are unhelpful. I need to work out, but by saying it in that way, I lose the interest and I've made no path to do it.
While I didn't agree with everything, I was glad to have read it. It's good to challenge my politic and to see how I can regroup and reshape it. I think it's worth a read.