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  1. The disintegration of liberalism and 'postliberal disillusionment'

    * "That sound you hear is not the world ending – it’s liberalism being monstered liberalism. Liberalism defines almost our entire social and political order in the west."

    "Broad, deep, relentless. And what matters most is the compounding effect: a near-constant sense of crisis in almost every sphere of life."

    “... It is the vehicle for this fury that is directed towards the major parties because of this very long sense of neglect and social economic disempowerment that has become so profound."

    "It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress...When people stop believing in progress, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours. Our political order was built on the promise of expanding wealth and greater control over our lives. It said we could dream big, then pursue those dreams, and that if we didn’t achieve them, maybe our children would."

    "As disillusionment sets in, there is no shortage of culprits. One possibility is to tell a story about capitalism, which generates gaping inequalities and destroys the planet." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    * The medicalisation of social problems is the sociological process by which everyday human experiences, behaviors, and societal challenges come to be defined, labeled, and treated as medical conditions or disorders

    * "Post-traumatic embitterment disorder
    is a pathological response to a single adverse life event perceived by the affected individual as a serious insult, humiliation, or injustice."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tra
    #liberalism #progress #CoreValues #inequality #injustice #experiences #disintegration #disillusionment #failure #democracy #erosion #CommonGood #decline #ressentiment #fury #medicalisation #PostliberalDisillusionment #retrograde #PostLiberalism #polycrisis

  2. "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

    Jane Addams

    #quoteoftheday #Good #AllOfUs #CommonGood #Unions

  3. "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

    Jane Addams

    #quoteoftheday #Good #AllOfUs #CommonGood #Unions

  4. "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

    Jane Addams

    #quoteoftheday #Good #AllOfUs #CommonGood #Unions

  5. "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

    Jane Addams

    #quoteoftheday #Good #AllOfUs #CommonGood #Unions

  6. If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?

    For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric.

    polymathchristian.wordpress.co

  7. The Hemorrh Age

    We live now
    in the Hemorrh Age,

    not the age of honest wounds
    tended by trembling hands,
    not the age of scars
    that speak of healing,
    but the age of the open vein,
    the praised rupture,
    the sanctified split.

    Everything is torn
    and taught to remain torn.

    The old ligaments of neighborliness,
    frayed.
    The sinews of patience,
    snapped.
    The small capillaries of mercy
    burst one by one
    beneath the pressure
    of opinion, spectacle, grievance, noise.

    We are leaking.

    Trust runs into the street.
    Language pools beneath the door.
    Truth is carried away
    on a thousand little red channels
    no one bothers to close.

    And everywhere
    the merchants of division
    move among us
    with clean white gloves,
    smiling,
    holding their polished instruments,
    whispering that this incision
    is necessary,
    that this cut is clarity,
    that this tearing apart
    is what it means
    to be awake.

    They call hemorrhage conviction.
    They call hatred discernment.
    They call contempt wisdom.
    They call cruelty a kind
    of courage.

    And we, half-dizzy,
    half-devout,
    watching our common life
    soak through the bandages,
    mistake the spreading stain
    for a flag.

    Even the holy things
    are not spared.

    Altars become platforms.
    Prayer becomes signal.
    Prophets are drafted
    into factions.
    The wounds of the world
    are trimmed and displayed
    for effect.
    Compassion is made to perform
    beneath bright lights
    until it no longer knows
    how to touch a body
    without first finding a camera.

    How strange,
    that a people can perish
    not by a single blow
    but by endless bleeding.
    Not by invasion
    but by laceration from within.
    Not by silence
    but by the shriek
    of everyone opening
    everyone else.

    We have become
    students of severing.
    Apprentices of fracture.
    Curators of the unsutured.

    Every difference
    a knife.
    Every slight
    a blade returned.
    Every memory
    reopened.
    Every sorrow
    milked for more.

    No one asks now
    how to heal a wound.
    Only how to name it,
    frame it,
    share it,
    weaponize it,
    keep it wet.

    And still—
    still somewhere beneath
    this failing body,
    beneath the fevered rhetoric,
    beneath the hot blush
    of tribal wrath,
    some quiet stubborn tissue
    tries to knit.

    A hand reaches.
    A voice lowers.
    A stranger refuses
    the sweet narcotic
    of contempt.
    Someone binds what they did not tear.
    Someone stays near
    what others abandoned.
    Someone chooses
    not victory,
    but mending.

    Perhaps that is how
    an age survives itself.

    Not by denying blood.
    Not by pretending
    there was never injury.
    But by kneeling at last
    beside the opened body
    and saying:

    Enough.

    Let the wound close.
    Let the pressure ease.
    Let mercy return
    to the smallest vessels.
    Let the torn muscle remember
    its first design.
    Let us become again
    something more than our bleeding.

    For if this is
    the Hemorrh Age,
    then let there also rise
    against it
    the tender and stubborn saints
    of suturing,

    the keepers of bandages,
    the washers of torn flesh,
    the enemies of spectacle,
    the last believers
    that a body
    still can heal.

    #civicDecay #collectiveTrauma #commonGood #cultureOfContempt #division #HemorrhAge #mediaManipulation #mending #Mercy #neighborliness #outrageCulture #peaceWitness #Poetry #polarization #politicalSpectacle #propheticArt #publicDiscourse #Reconciliation #SocialFragmentation #socialHealing #SpiritualReflection #Tribalism #woundedSociety
  8. "The last pope named Leo, Leo XIII, issued the first social encyclical, Rerum novarum, in 1891. In it, he argued for the rights and duties of workers in the context of the Industrial Revolution, including the right to work, the right to a just wage, and the right to form unions.

    Nobody expected the Church at that time to do that."

    ~ Ruben C. Mendoza

    #LeoXIV #LeoXIII #pope #Trump #RobertPrevost #workers #SocialJustice #CommonGood #EconomicJustice #solidarity
    /32

    ucanews.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-

  9. Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA Network, says that he expects Leo to “follow the path that Francis set to build a more inclusive and transparent Church."

    "'The selection of the name of Leo XIV is a special acknowledgment of the need to support the poor and workers,' LeCompte added."

    ~ Angela Giuffrida, Harriet Sherwood, and Sam Jones

    #LeoXIV #LeoXIII #pope #Trump #RobertPrevost #workers #SocialJustice #CommonGood #EconomicJustice #solidarity
    /19

    theguardian.com/world/2025/may

  10. "[Leo XIII] was very pro-working man. He was very pro-labor. He was a good Pope. So the fact that the new Pope took that name, I take as a very good sign."

    ~ Greg Olear

    #LeoXIV #LeoXIII #pope #Trump #RobertPrevost #workers #SocialJustice #CommonGood #EconomicJustice #solidarity
    /17

    gregolear.substack.com/p/rambl

  11. "MAGAs responded to the new pope with fury. Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, who is close to Trump, called Pope Leo 'another Marxist puppet in the Vatican.' Influencer Charlie Kirk suggested he was an '[o]pen borders globalist installed to counter Trump.'”

    #LeoXIV #LeoXIII #pope #Trump #RobertPrevost #workers #SocialJustice #CommonGood #EconomicJustice #solidarity
    /16

  12. Research finding from a longitudinal study in Germany: Cycling was the only variable that was a significant positive predictor for all four facets of orientation towards the common good: political participation, social participation in organizations, neighborhood solidarity, and neighborly helpfulness. sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #BikeTooter #cycling #CommonGood #community #neighborhood #research #Germany #helpfulness