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jordinn

@jordinn@zirk.us

A progressive parish minister and public theologian working on a geography PhD in Newfoundland.

Wyomingite turned Vermonter, but that skips a lot of the story. Law-trained. Place-rooted. Equally beguiled and horrified by brick cities and by rurality, and have spent life moving between both.

Trying to seek what Jane Jacobs sought, but in smaller cities and in this millennium.

If you are cool w genocide you will be unhappy here.

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Me, trying to grok 'moral rights' to intellectual property as a legal concept: WHAT. Why. How. I do not understand

Government of Canada: The U.S. does not have the general legal concept of Moral Rights

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I wonder how much better we could creatively make things by simply shifting our framework to

'it's possible and GREAT to care about more than one thing at the same time.'

Why do we agree to act like YOU ONLY GET ONE THING AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS ACCEPTABLE COLLATERAL DAMAGE is real? It's not real!

That is not how things even work! Everything we do already shifts multiple other things!

We can work multiple problems at the same time.

Secret to do this well: prioritize PEOPLE'S BODIES.

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How can we keep our towns and cities safe for pedestrians, bicyclists, the disabled, children playing, AND how do we help everyone get around regionally AND how do we assertively REFUSE to live in or accept a police surveillance state?

I care about all of those things. You do, too.

It's not 'pick only one.'

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You're going to miss the civil liberties that are being lost now, many of which you never gave thought to having.

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I don't know how to break this to y'all bicycle advocates, but 'speed cameras on every street' is literally 'cop cameras on every street' and it might not be the utopia you're hoping for

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Hilarious headline. Yes, y'all. That is how political pressure works, and what it does. As you would know better than anyone.

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Starting my summer reading with Robert Bellah has so utterly broken my brain that every time I think about it I look like the conspiracy board meme but I'm just staring into space

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Bellah argues that individualism is the core theology and reflexive practice that makes America, America. With this I do not quibble.

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Bellah argued also, however, that the expressive individualism that gave rise to 60s era civil disobedience and the summer of peace and love is merely the other side of the greed is good individualism that then comes in to steal the show, and which evolves again into the best-life, best-me therapy-and-meds individualism that then pops up to assuage the upper middle class hurting in a gutted society.

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What might turn into my actual supervillain origin story, and for now has me just staring, slack-jawed, is the realization that what gives rise to 60s expressive individualism is the space allowed by a much more robust welfare state and public benefit agenda than anything we've had since.

Like... we HAD nice things.

And then we wanted more of them. Civil rights expansion and codification is definitely nice things.

But people feared that the country was being set on fire to get them.

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We lost public benefit, left governance, higher education as a commons, and well-funded institutional democracy because the SPACIOUSNESS that those things provided to thinking people within the American individualist context was terrifying to those who thought not only, as now, that they personally would lose the social control they had, but also to MANY who thought as centrists that the literal country and its union and future and social contract were in profound danger.

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MY TERROR: were those people maybe right in that, given the spaciousness and possibility and mobility and real choice for the vast majority that a robust social democracy can provide, American individualism as self-focused, collective-refusing culture WOULD IN FACT INEVITABLY set itself on fire?

This is the (largely silent) argument made against letting a progressive agenda set the terms ever again and I'm not 100% positive it's wrong and it's not bc of progressivism but bc of americanism

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because progressivism, both the orientation and also the agenda behind it, what it provides is greater freedom. Great freedom in the absolute.

And without a collectivist soul, which America may or may not have (Bellah thought perhaps but that we were in the process of discarding its last vestiges), great freedom without precarity and compulsion inherently comes to mean fire, fire everywhere because no one has muscular practice toward the compromises of shared and sustainable life

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help me I'm Pareto on inequality but with America and praxis toward meaningful freedom

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Having dialogue this morning with the I'm personally mad and thus voting for Trump set did really nothing to assuage my fears 🔥 😬

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Update, I now think the best argument against this entire line of thinking is how incredibly many people in the US are deeply grateful for the guidance and reassurance of collective repression. The 'individualist' streak simply means that Americans require the repression that will hit them, too, be first and nominally directed at the neighbor they don't like.

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Ok, that was fascinating.

I'm definitely as upset as anyone not IMMEDIATELY personally affected by the ongoing genocide, and/yet no matter how I squint have not been able to get with 'and because I am upset about the wholesale slaughter that the US is funding, I will do my part to make it easier for someone who literally wants Gaza obliterated to win a hotly contested and very close election.'

Through the looking glass.

Thanks very much, village, for quietly letting people answer. 💗 🙌🏻

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NYT on Trump: We COULD refuse to legitimize a candidacy so convoluted by felony convictions that the country's top legal scholars are not certain he should legally be on the ballot, but we decline to make him look unserious as a contender

NYT on RFK Jr: HE HAS A WORM IN HIS BRAIN, LET US REPEAT: A WORM

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Ok. If you are A US CITIZEN (if not, this question ISN'T FOR YOU) and are not voting for Biden, I would like to hear (explain it to me like I'm five) what, in your view, this will accomplish.

Edit: If you ARE voting Biden, please shhh.

I will not argue with you; I'm genuinely interested in what you think the outcome can or will be from your own and others' non-vote.

After I learn this, I will be deleting this Russian troll-bait of a post, though those I am talking to are not that.

Thanks!

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You think that saying yes to your child playing a string instrument is paying for an instrument and also for lessons and then sitting through innumerable bad public performances but hear this it is also asking 'where is your viola' and 'why did you leave it at school' every other weekday for 12 years

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Two decades ago Greg Dening described 'history' as a politically tenable telling of events; I read this last week and haven't stopped thinking about it since

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Huge shout out to the Israeli people who, like many everywhere else, have totally had it and are now out in force demanding a ceasefire, blocking traffic, disobeying their government, trying to bring hostages home, and generally saying ENOUGH.

Every one of them is putting themselves in grave danger from an unhinged regime. GO, brave Israeli peace movement- we are cheering for you, too.

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I do wish, based on the response on this post, that people yearned as intensely and needfully for cheering on and humanizing of the Palestinian people. What would it be like for the same basic human care to be extended in both cases? When you love two people, caring for both is not an attack on either. It is simply what our hearts exist to do.

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realizing that 'All of This is Fine, Actually' is what we can expect from international media along the entire 21st century journey

War: fine
Intensifying inequality: fine
Fascism overtaking social democracy everywhere: fine
Climate change: fine

This isn't a glitch

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Thinking a lot about how many educated 'centrist' Americans view not being impacted by the lives of others as the most clear and desirable form of meaningful freedom

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@CedarTea I guess what I'm saying, and what I imagine, is that increasing systemic instability and unpredictability are likely to break down the infrastructure that forced isolation/separation depends on. I think this will happen again and again, probably with increasing frequency, and possibly with increasing freak-outs from militarized police and those who imagine themselves protected by them. I'm not sure that the separation will hold, even given violently repressive response.

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