Book summaries shared here are done with full credit to their authors and are a way of sharing the learnings I've had from them rather than trying to replicate them or replace them.
I haven't really read this genre of books before, so I appreciate you sharing it. Admittedly, I feel a bit naive. It sounds like the underlying premise of the book is that we, humans, should be nice to ourselves, to other beings, and to the planet, but how exactly we can achieve that isn't clear to me.
Did you come out with a particular action item from the book (whether for yourself or for a government) that would help move us forward to better? I know you already touched on this, but it sounds like the book uses a lot of big words that aren't specific enough. For example, I'm not sure what "building a model of universal care which overrides the market-mediated forces of individualized self-interest" means specifically in terms of what we should do.
This is not a critique - it's mostly an enquiry for more specificity :)
Thanks for reading the post, I appreciate your comment! Yes, I agree, the authors do use a lot of jargon to be honest so I think that it might feel dense to read through because it requires a bit of background knowledge into various intersectional studies. The good thing about the book which I couldn't capture in this post is that they provide a lot of examples of how communities around the world are practicing exactly these ideas. It's worth a read for the examples. But even then, I found it left a lot of room for readers to interpret and to go about building communities from the ground up, ones that are tailored to the people within, therefore it would be difficult to be prescriptive about it.
I haven't really read this genre of books before, so I appreciate you sharing it. Admittedly, I feel a bit naive. It sounds like the underlying premise of the book is that we, humans, should be nice to ourselves, to other beings, and to the planet, but how exactly we can achieve that isn't clear to me.
Did you come out with a particular action item from the book (whether for yourself or for a government) that would help move us forward to better? I know you already touched on this, but it sounds like the book uses a lot of big words that aren't specific enough. For example, I'm not sure what "building a model of universal care which overrides the market-mediated forces of individualized self-interest" means specifically in terms of what we should do.
This is not a critique - it's mostly an enquiry for more specificity :)
Thanks for reading the post, I appreciate your comment! Yes, I agree, the authors do use a lot of jargon to be honest so I think that it might feel dense to read through because it requires a bit of background knowledge into various intersectional studies. The good thing about the book which I couldn't capture in this post is that they provide a lot of examples of how communities around the world are practicing exactly these ideas. It's worth a read for the examples. But even then, I found it left a lot of room for readers to interpret and to go about building communities from the ground up, ones that are tailored to the people within, therefore it would be difficult to be prescriptive about it.