BTW did I mention that back in the day we had to walk 20 miles to school in the dark, in the snow… with no shoes….and BEARS?

But I really am no stranger to being cold, wet, dirty, and hungry. I used to live in a blue school bus back in the mountains and grow my own food. Though I’m less hardened to physical discomfort nowadays, I guess I’m still fairly insensitive to precarity as a mental state.

Be that as it may, I understand there are lots of people living in chronic fear, anxiety, and insecurity and psychological precarity. I guess they never had the necessary conditions or resources to adapt successfully to their hardships and uncertainties on a psychological level. Probably the best thing we can do is adopt as many as we can into our own local groups of mutual support and help nurse them back to less precarious states of mind.

Unless each of us has adequate networks of peer support we risk tipping towards mental and emotional precarity. If we don’t all have small, close-knit local groups of mutual support, I don’t think we can raise and sustain a broader movement.

That’s why I’ve been quoting the US Declaration of Independence lately. The last words are “[We] mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

I think that is really a fundamental necessity. If you have that, precarity be damned.

PR