Rottenberg brilliantly analyses this here! It is as absurd as it is tragic for any who are not the beneficiaries of significant inherited wealth.ī00K of the WEEK! After Thatcher's cultural war lauding self sufficiency & competitiveness, combined w her political assault on unions & welfare, we got t media embracing an etiolated form of aspirational feminism. We need to challenge the view that there is something wrong with ‘dependency’, as Margaret Thatcher once suggested. It’s a huge political issue, and we have yet to begin to address it. These cuts have been imposed in places where provision needed to expand, with an ageing population and excessive job demands.
This is the area I am currently working on: the overall crisis of humanity we have caused by the choice to impose massive austerity cuts. They are having to close down so many of the public resources they once provided, from nurseries, to youth centres, respite care for home carers, care homes for the elderly and so on. This connects with the huge cuts to local councils. Parents are anxious about having the time and energy to care for their children, or women feel unable to have the children they might want because of their insecure circumstances.Ĭare for the sick, disabled, older care, has been at breaking point for years. In this brilliant and provocative book, Segal proposes that the power of true happiness can only be discovered collectively.Today we live with a crisis of care at every level. She also shows how the gaps in care that come from the diminishing role of the welfare state must be replaced by alternative ways of living together and looking after one another. Examining her own experience in the women's movement, Segal looks at the relationship between love and sex, and the scope for utopian thinking as a means to a better future. She argues that instead of obsessing about our own well-being we should seek fulfilment in the lives of others.
Segal believes we have lost the art of "radical happiness"-the liberation that comes with transformative, collective joy. While research and technology find new ways to measure contentment and popular culture encourages us to think of happiness as a human right, misery is abundant. In an era of increasing individualism, we have never been more isolated and dispirited. A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives
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