
Facing a bleak world with hope, imagination, and curiosity. betterstrangers.substack.com
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This article is part of a series on the ideas and philosophy of Alan Moore. To read the other articles, click here.
Let me tell you a story, and you tell me if it sounds familiar:
After several years of gains for the progressive and labor movements... more
This is part of an ongoing series on the ideas of Alan Moore. Read the rest of the series here. Also, I took the paywall down from last week’s article, as it makes up the basis of a lot of the philosophical stuff I’m gonna be talking about on here. R... more
In 1968, Kurt Vonnegut quipped, “a sane person to an insane society must appear insane.” A few years earlier, in his acclaimed book, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, the philosopher Michel Foucault argued that wha... more
This is part of a series on mutual aid. If you are interested in this newsletter but not the mutual aid series (which comes to an end next week), you can unsubscribe from JUST the series here, and still get my other stuff!
In 2020, Chelle King moved... more
This is part of a running course on mutual aid. You can read the other articles here.
Last week we discussed “disaster utopias,” the phenomenon in which, when something really terrible happens, people on the whole respond with kindness, selflessness... more
This is part of a running course on mutual aid. You can read the other articles here.
If you want to have an honest discussion about mutual aid, you have to be willing to discuss radical political ideologies like anarchism and communism, and you hav... more
If there was one silver lining to the dumpster-fire pandemic year of 2020, it was the resurgence in the public eye of mutual aid. Mutual aid hadn’t gone anywhere, of course: it is something that the vast majority of humans engage in every day, and it... more
Merry Christmas! I’ve got a special one-off article for you today. May your holiday and New Year be full of people you love, fun, and kindness.
Last week, thanks to Thomas Klaffke’s excellent newsletter Creative Destruction, I learned that the Santa... more









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