{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Other Life","title":"Other Life #3 - Adriana","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":8118,"description":"Adriana is a mental health worker based in London. She is a member of Plan C (http://www.weareplanc.org/).\nNotes\nHow our ideas and speech can cut off liberation dynamics; the sociology of sorting in activist circles (00:07)\nWhy we don't gossip or criticize other political groups, the futility of objections in favor of looking for new weapons, relationships (00:11)\nAdriana's experiences in mental health, NHS, CBT, etc. The power of meditation (fuck the haters). (00:15)\nJust because you're high-functioning doesn't mean your mentally well; how we've lowered the standard for what counts as healthy life; capitalism at best is like \"choose your own mental illness.\" (00:16)\nFinancial success is just profitable mental illness (00:18)\nHow we're blackmailed into saying our lives are good (00:19)\nLearning how to become well together might just be the most viable program of revolutionary politics available. (00:23)\nMental health is not hippie shit. (00:25)\nThe need for immediate tools to deal with where the economic system enters our bodies; cognitive-behavioral therapy. (00:27)\nFocusing on your own mental health isn't selfish. It transforms relationships and institutions; charisma and the ability to embody and effect a new type of being. (00:30)\nPeople think \"being radical\" means saying and doing things within radical circles, but around most people at most times we are boring, lazy, and moderate. On revolutionizing everyday life. (00:44)\nTo spread revolution you have to let go of your fucking agenda once in a while. (00:48)\nPolitical groups don't have to read Marx; just find the thing that makes everyone joyous and creative. (00:56)\nWhy we don't recruit, Plan C. (1:08)\nAdriana's thoughts on the next steps; allow large groups of people to radicalize themselves in totally different ways and then aggregate and organize them. Note and record your own moments where you feel really good, show them, understand them, and ask: what is your version of this? (1:15)\nRevolutionary...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BZcuiSRr4bH_GmK2Yf2ejTUwE_7qZeLoFy1J8IYgIS0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE0MDg1LzE2ODgw/NTE4MjMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}