ANews Podcast 301 – 2.10.2023

ANews Podcast 301 – 2.10.2023

From ANews Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.

Notes:

What’s New

Written by chisel, read by chisel & sincerity.

A reading from theanarchistlibrary:

Peter Gelderloos – Anarchy Works (excerpt)

Read & sound edited by Max Res

TOTW: Elder Care

w/ Ariel & Max Res

sound editing by octox

Samples & Music:

Radio AM FM Tuning Sound Effect | Old Radio Switching Channels

Oscar Agudelo – La Cama Vacía [lofi]

Faun Fables – I’d Like to Be

Piero – Mi Viejo [lofi]

Juan Luis Guerra – Bachata en Fukuoka [slowed + lofi + reverb]

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gotta find some youths that are really attracted to olds, do a lot for a lil old flesh

it’s not all feel-good feelings, there’s a reason feelings like guilt, debt, and duty exist and they can be mobilized to get (in this case young) people to do unpleasant things (when love is not enough or not there)

another option is if care workers were sucked up to by society and the state as soldiers and cops are.
the other alternative is money, like it was mentioned.

i think to get anarchists of all ages together, with the ulterior motive of getting the young ones to take care of the old, a way to make it “sexy”, instead of saying “young people wanted to take care of the old”, could be to make gatherings based on topics with the end to make long-term work groups or affinity groups. like let’s say something cool sounding. then people of all ages get there and organize around how to do “the thing” but then one day they happen to meet at old person’s house and oh look wouldn’t it be nice if someone could clean this or move that, oh thanks. and hey what if tomorrow we meet at so and so, i got a doctor’s appointment, any chance any if you could drop me on the way there to or back.

but then there’s the people that can’t even make it to those meetings. those will be taken care of by universal health insurance, universal basic income, and robot servants, as well as st. junipero style mind uploads

In previous similar discussions about aging, the joke was made about prisons being the retirement home for anarchists. In that case, prison support is elder care. Then that extends to when and if they’re released at old age, with all the damage from prison. Like imagine if Alfredo Cospito was released today, what kind of medical care would he need?

Since most anarchists don’t make it to old age, and most people are not anarchist, the problem of caring for the anarchist elderly is a comparatively small one compared to the rest of the normie population. Are there more anarchist prisoners, or more anarchist elderly (and these are not mutually exclusive)?

Caring for an obstreperous anarchist is an unattractive proposition that does not get more attractive with age. Or is the proposition that young anarchists should provide care for the whole population of untended old people, not just anarchists? Not enough to go around. There might not be enough youth total to go around to take care of the elderly in some “highly developed” countries with aged populations. So pay migrants to take care of them. Pass policy to abolish borders with citizenships for full-time carers.

Anarchists should get health insurance sales and marketing jobs so that they get paid to go door to door to he elderly, and while they inform them of their coverage options, they can have a nice sincere chat and make friends and then keep in touch outside of working hours, in which they could help them with things.

When your best bet for a functional care system is to be a frontline worker for parasitic big corps.

The sarcasm doesn’t come through, specially since i toned it down in some parts because I thought I was being too harsh. I’m certain many anarchists would unironically like this. Some ancoms just want universal healthcare after all.

Please explaaaain what is wrong with a universal healthcare, but I won't hold my breath as you ain't got nuthin to defend your shitsain social darwinist views other than "Rule of teh Stronk!!!"

bro, how u even gonna care health for other galaxies? checkmate, universalist

You don't seem to even know what "universalism" is about?

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