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Hospicing Modernity

Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

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Hospicing Modernity

By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
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 For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book about facing the multiple crises of modernity--and hospicing modernity--with maturity, humility, and integrity.

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of.

Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak irreparable havoc on the ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we share our planet. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability?

Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance--the do-gooder who does "good enough," then retreats to business as usual; the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker--and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back...and why it's time now to gradually disinvest. Including exercises used with teachers, NGO practitioners, and global changemakers, she offers us thought experiments that ask us to:

• Reimagine how we learn, unlearn, and respond to crisis
• Better assess our surroundings and interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
• Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for difficult and painful things
• Understand the "5 modern-colonial e's": Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment in low-intensity struggle activism
• Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
• Create space for change driven neither by desperate hope nor a fear of desolate hopelessness

For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Charles Eisenstein, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all. Activism & Social Justice Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Ethics & Morality Future Studies Philosophy Politics & Government Social Sciences Solar System Colonial Period
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Hospicing Modernity is a most important book for our times. It helps us to consider what is beyond that which we know how to do. Worth also exploring together with a group.

Important book for our times.

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This book has touched the depths of my unconscious in healing ways concerning my own idenity and daily struggles in modernity. Together with My Grandmother's Hands and Radical Wholeness, Hopicing Modernity is pure natural medicine.

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I recommend this book to everyone who wants to 'grow up and show up' differently in the world as modernity crumbles, without rushing to impose their own clever idea in what to do next. I've appreciated GTDF's writing for years, and found this book even more trenchant, moving and relevant than I'd hoped. If you're still pretty sure that someone will come along and fix everything, or that modernity can be tweaked with the right ideology or people at the helm, then this book is not for you. If we're willing to look at our radical interconnectedness and develop responsibility, with no guarantees, ie, become adults, then this book has invaluable insight and help for us.

It is read beautifully, and clearly, by Dougald Hine.

Essential listening for humans

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a book for the world : a book to be read with others : with yourself : with time to follow your nose : materials have been put in the digital habitat to help : a book for our community habitats : a way of being :::::

a book for the world

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