Today’s episode focuses on fostering community resilience and self-sufficiency in the face of declining state support for essential services like healthcare and education. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, uses the metaphor of a sweet potato growing in water to illustrate how individuals and communities can cultivate care and mutual aid outside traditional institutional frameworks. She advocates for a return to ancestral knowledge, emphasising prevention, shared resources, and local initiatives like health pods and skill-sharing. Ultimately, she suggests that collective well-being and survival depend on strengthening these informal networks, proving that care can flourish even in challenging conditions.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/on-sweet-potatoes-and-solidarity
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