We collectively owe you both an endless string of wisdom that we are just beggining to unravel. Your presences will leave an unfillable void, a ballast of sober critical thinking without which we are destined to sink. Bless you
Helena's descriptions of the way they raised children in Ladakh -- in her book Ancient Futures -- match exactly the conditions that Gabor describes are necessary for healthy child development. (I'm very sorry I missed out.)
We have been taught to believe that wanting and striving for more is the route to happiness,.Yes, we must pay our bills, however, to continually feel like we are not doing or having ‘enough’, in order to create wealth and ‘opportunity’, has led us to focus on materialism and external validation. This, in turn, has led us to become disconnected from each other, creating stress, and breaking down the familial and community bonds we once had. If you doubt this, simply look at all the dysfunction, homelessness and despair in society that the rich would keep hidden and out-of-sight. Michael Sandwell calls this the ‘tyranny of merit’. Luckily, Gabor, Helena, Sandell and others are helping to throw light on this situation. I just hope that it’s not too late.
so true..its so sad that whilst so many people are focused on this getting more and more a bigger better car,house,holiday etc that the lack of community connection and opportunities to be in and connect with neighbours for instance is totally missed.So many people do not even know who their neighbours are or what they look like even!! Imagine if people collectively got together to organise local neighbourhood activities..say street by street and people knew who was elderly/disabled or needed shopping done or you have other neighbours who could look out for your kids of you needed time off.So much of this community structure has broken down even in my lifetime where in the seventies playing outside and shopping was not the national obsession it is today.People's expectations and aspirations now for the latest cars,bigger houses,expensive holidays etc has grown exponentially here in the UK from what I can see.Maybe it was more like that in the states amongst well off middle classes. I don't want to romanticise that past or not say it was without its issues etc but it feels like people are less happier than they've ever been with all their stuff or the comparisons between the haves and the have nots and the seeming rewards that some people seem to glean based on doing jobs that do not seem to offer much to our society.Nurses,teachers,doctors use to be jobs to aspire to and now it seems everyone wants easy money and celebrity
I just am amazed by the compassion of Gabor Mate. Thanks for bringing this conversation and his wisdom forth. Would be an honour to meet him and hear him someday 😊🙏
A uploading to the truth what is rising up on the surface of our mind and body , THANK YOU for more openings discussion realization for important change in our lifestyle .Loving living in the peace & believe to rise up like the Phoenix from Ashes ...
This is so very precious!!! Remarkably helpful, healing. Why don’t we talk or even shout about that all the time!!? Why don’t people want to see the absurd of this pseudomedical situation?!?!? Thank you🤍
I convert is podcast into MP3 for my work and sometime I don't understand anything even the translator on UA-cam can't understand Gabor but I love the guy
I've heard many of Gabor's talks and interviews on UA-cam. He emphasizes the importance of bonding and connection, emotional and physical, between children and their parents. And here is what Helena says in her Ancient Futures book about how they used to raise children in Ladakh: "[Children] have continual physical contact with others, a factor that plays an important role in their development." "Men and women alike adore little children." "Children receive unlimited and unconditional affection from everyone around them." [Children] grow up surrounded by people of all ages ... they grow up as part of a whole chain of relationships, a chain of giving and taking." These are the things that are lacking, as Gabor describes, in the way most children are brought up in the "civilized" Western world.
I’m curious if my children are in better health to have my mother virtually accessible to us consistently as she can only visit twice yearly now -grandmothers are good for grandchildren!!
It would be nice to actually hear from the people in those countries in Africa or India or those people in general rather than just white people talking about it all the time from their point of view.i get it...I really do as someone who has spent some years living in Africa and trying to make sense of the inequalities and differences in how people live and the apparent unhappiness in much of the western world despite our relative wealth. I really think we need to hear far more voices from those continents because sometimes I can't help but feel westerners can only speak from a very limited and outside perspective.I learned so much by listening to many people in Africa and came to realise so much about how we focus far too much on the intellect rather than our deeper inner knowing or intuition. I agree studying Phd's in order to find out things which are blatantly common sense does seem a waste of time..not all academia of course but so much of it seems driven by a kind of egotistical need for status rather than acquiring knowledge that is of value and use and translatable into practical workable solutions. ,,,and yes I do agree women in general are far more tuned into this inner knowing and intuition than men are but we pay a price for this with often being emotional caretakers and men pay the price by being more disconnected from their emotions very often but more able to go out into the world and gain their validity through work and career..OK its changing but men still focus more on career very often than on being caregivers.
Jac.B.Nijssen presents in his book Tackling Human Complexity 2018 a dynamical model of the inner workings of human beings. It focuses especially on the lifetime development of the interaction between feeling and thinking during the preparation and execution of behavior vis-à-vis an environment.
Greed for money is killing us. How cruel and barbaric we have become - while the rich laugh at the chaos they have caused while counting their hoarded gold.
i adore Gabor and i cant stop watching videos with him. he repeatedly talks about the lost connection between young and elder. i wish i could be closer to my parents but i cant. they are very conservative and do not uderstand veganism at least. misuderstaning doesnt help to create loving and caring surroundings. so i moved to my own place. and the strange thing is we speak more often and dont argue now at all. do you think it can be healthier to be apart from elders?
Apologists for capitalism say that we have never had it so good in terms of living conditions, access to clean water, food supplies, housing, benefits, access to medical care etc. And they say that if wealth wasn't created by capitalism we wouldn't have hospitals, food stores, water supplies, jobs etc. Can we really go back to living in tribes? We may have a nostalgic yearning for this but how many Western people, if given the choice of having a community but being poor would choose it? How can we reintroduce communities and mitigate the worst effects of capitalism? You are describing the problems well (we (the 'educated' liberals ARE disillusioned Gabor) but what can we do about it? We need to pay our bills and support our families and cope with living in this society. There isn't a lot of time for much else! And then there are those descended from the working class who support capitalism and may have their own house for example - they believe in the system and aspire to more. They brand critics of the system as Marxists or woke intellectuals and vote for Brexit to keep the foreigners out. So not only the billionaires and the corporations are against us but also our potential allies who believe in the capitalist dream.
Divide and conquer. Billions of dollars and countless man-hours are expended in order to keep us distracted, disoriented, demoralized, drugged, and divided so as to neutralize any threat we, the many, might pose to the system and the privileges and profits of the ruling class if only we understood how everything actually worked, what the real enemy was, and collectively organized and mobilized with clear vision and radical determination to overthrow this barbaric and inhumane “social” order and build a society that was oriented toward everyone’s universal and natural human needs rather than the private greed of capitalists and sociopathy of corporations.
"if only we understood how everything actually worked" how do we find this out? Do you have any reading recommendations? And why have we, at the bottom, particularly in England, been so passive and disunited?
@@Sue-rh4qj Watch Michael Parenti’s talks on UA-cam and read his books. As for the state of the British working class in particular, I’m not sure. I’m in the states. But I’m sure Thatcherism/Blairism had/has a lot to do with it.
It's tough. With a daughter who is mentally ill, it's impossible to be in the grandchildren lives. The kids are bound to rebel eventually and then peer culture takes over.
Reading or listening to highly "technical" information doesn't give the majority of us a nice hit of bodily chemistry. We are, for the most part, a bunch of addicts looking for the next fix. We've been groomed unwittingly to be that way; maybe even unintentionally in the beginning. Once the cat was out of the bag though, those with ulterior motives took the reigns and kept up the momentum. One by one, we're going to have to suffer by degrees, go through withdrawals and discover long term satisfaction over short term fixes.
At 7:20- I moved from my birth town Portland, Or to Phoenix, Az back in 2012 and for the most part, nothing in Portland is exactly the same. There are a lot of small businesses (although less now, I'm sure) and in Phoenix every light there's a strip mall with the same chain restaurants and corporate shops. Shopping shopping and more shopping. I feel literally sick. No culture, no trees, no green, no semi cheap food cart with fusioned cultures. No drivers that know to watch out for bicycles and pedestrians. It's a soulless place to be in comparison to Portland, but I hear Portland has had it's own big issues. This country's "system" is all about big pharma and big banks. Enjoyment in life is not as important as getting the people sick so they have medical bills to pay, run out of money, then banks can have their homes again. Yuck!
Not just the rights of (matriarch) grandmas and children are denied but the parents are not kept in check. The primary or 'nuclear' family is an unbalanced 'community' without wider generational input, incl loving aunts, uncles & cousins who we replace with unrelated doctors & therapists. No wonder we are emotionally impoverished. Exclusive patriarchy has to go.
Yes. Children are treated like possessions, like the exclusive "property" of their parents. As are other species and the Earth. No sense that they have their own separate consciousness. What else would one expect from such a narcissistic, materialistic culture?
@@rain1956 I recently witnessed 2 adults screaming at their 2 little kids & had to intervene. Usually we are all inclined to look away as if it's 'not our business' but that wouldn't be true if we still lived in small communities with a range of age groups. Too much is hidden behind closed doors.
I grew up in a traditional patriarchy but that was in service of the underlying matriarchy. Please don’t throw terminology around aggressively. You could be defeating yourself. Men are not the root of all evil.
A bit of a rant here, so bear with me: I wish they would not gender care-giving. I know of men who have been good care-givers, as well men who have been advocates for equity. And I know of women who have created toxic family systems and/or contributed to larger (and toxic) societal systems. I believe whenever there is inequity it is typically rooted in dysfunctional environments (whether micro, mezzo or macro level, typically all three) and I really wish that were addressed by these two since they do believe in mind/body unity. In this vein, I find it hard to credibly take them seriously since theirs were the generations which had the massive numerical power (in the 1960's and beyond) to overturn the rapacious capitalism that was curbed by previous generations in the 1930's. How many of those privileged Boomers, in Canada, are smoking their now conveniently state-regulated cannabis in their polluting cottages in lands that should be left pristine (or returned to FNMI people), employing temporary foreign workers, and after selling their once socially subsidized homes in a nation where the average home is now upwards of $700,000? They are cashing out their pensions that were bled for by their progenitors and kept barely aloft by successive generations. OK, Boomers indeed... This is not meant to be a generalization of all in that cohort (since there are many who have been marginalized among them too, who were denied the opportunities of the privileged) and there as well are those who have worked for and practiced equity through both their words and actions, only that you'll excuse me if I wrestle with the obvious favorable demographic trends that have in general benefited the most privileged of that generation and is once again being ignored by ostensibly progressive social advocates. That all being said, I do recognize (and what perhaps Mate has lost sight of-not sure if Norberg-Hodge ever believed in equity) that the most critical axis of oppression continues to be economic class (which these two both dance around, however elegantly) and everything else-race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, etc-is all inferior to and subsumed in that the least addressed and still most oppressive driver of inequity.
Interesting, well said, but I am 55 widow, single mom since day 1. Dad died - no insurance, I was homeless in my early twenties as I had addiction, I work for over a (this last) decade at a job with no raises (wage freeze thru out company) and I am grateful to have a job, seriously its terrifying outside my door I see too many homeless. I am one year away from being a boomer. I have no education but I taught myself a trade. Dont know if young people can do that now? I bought a house 20 years ago by myself but I bought a power of sale, it was a shithouse lol but have been renovating it since I bought it. I paid 88K but can sell it for ? 600k but why would I? I cant find another house that I can afford. I keep it for my daughter to sell or whatever as she will struggle to afford a house if things don’t change. They are both boomers but I was just looking at their rooms they are in & their houses - look like humble plain not great, snd was surprised neither looked vulgar wealthy. But I agree - every day i WISH we could go back to the 70’s…. food was healthy, we didnt wear sunscreen or seatbelts & played outside alone (without parents) it was just happier as far as I can remember. I like Gabor Mate because of his book hungry ghosts. Dont know how the woman is. Anyways not all boomers had it easy, i grew up with ADD and other stuff that didnt even exist then lol
@@Fefe559 There is no doubt but that there are those in that Boomer cohort who were left behind by both privilege and opportunity (and those in other generations who did benefit and exploit disproportionately privilege and opportunity)...but that Boomer generation certainly squeezed the hard-won socialized infrastructure that they collectively dismantled since the 1970's. And we should not kid ourselves about that prosperity-it was gained at the expense of others, whether it was the developing world, temporary foreign workers, exploitative immigration policies, the off-loading of debt onto successive generations, selfish and short-sighted economic policies and almost unimaginable privatization of once socialized services and that once lauded infrastructure. In my opinion, right now we as a species need loving-kindness, equity and inclusive long-term planning not myopic nostalgia and I hope you inculcate such values into those you touch in your own life because, again in my narrow view, they are the foundation for not only wellness but a sustainable, equitable world.
I feel like seeing Galadriel speak to Gandalf. These two are amazing
Omg yes 💃🏼🕺🏼
We collectively owe you both an endless string of wisdom that we are just beggining to unravel.
Your presences will leave an unfillable void, a ballast of sober critical thinking without which we are destined to sink.
Bless you
Outstanding conversation, feel so privileged to be able to listen, thank you! 🙏
I am so glad I found this video, which is my introduction to Helena Norberg-Hodge. So much wisdom and compassion!
Helena's descriptions of the way they raised children in Ladakh -- in her book Ancient Futures -- match exactly the conditions that Gabor describes are necessary for healthy child development. (I'm very sorry I missed out.)
♥ New sub from Belgium, the amazing Gabor Maté & what a wonderful lady Helena 'to meet' her here, thank you so
We have been taught to believe that wanting and striving for more is the route to happiness,.Yes, we must pay our bills, however, to continually feel like we are not doing or having ‘enough’, in order to create wealth and ‘opportunity’, has led us to focus on materialism and external validation.
This, in turn, has led us to become disconnected from each other, creating stress, and breaking down the familial and community bonds we once had. If you doubt this, simply look at all the dysfunction, homelessness and despair in society that the rich would keep hidden and out-of-sight. Michael Sandwell calls this the ‘tyranny of merit’. Luckily, Gabor, Helena, Sandell and others are helping to throw light on this situation. I just hope that it’s not too late.
so true..its so sad that whilst so many people are focused on this getting more and more a bigger better car,house,holiday etc that the lack of community connection and opportunities to be in and connect with neighbours for instance is totally missed.So many people do not even know who their neighbours are or what they look like even!! Imagine if people collectively got together to organise local neighbourhood activities..say street by street and people knew who was elderly/disabled or needed shopping done or you have other neighbours who could look out for your kids of you needed time off.So much of this community structure has broken down even in my lifetime where in the seventies playing outside and shopping was not the national obsession it is today.People's expectations and aspirations now for the latest cars,bigger houses,expensive holidays etc has grown exponentially here in the UK from what I can see.Maybe it was more like that in the states amongst well off middle classes.
I don't want to romanticise that past or not say it was without its issues etc but it feels like people are less happier than they've ever been with all their stuff or the comparisons between the haves and the have nots and the seeming rewards that some people seem to glean based on doing jobs that do not seem to offer much to our society.Nurses,teachers,doctors use to be jobs to aspire to and now it seems everyone wants easy money and celebrity
Thank you for this amazing talk I want to watch this again and again it's like the powers that be have asked us to go into reverse for our well-being
I value this conversation, open honest sweet. This safe space is really appreciated.
I just am amazed by the compassion of Gabor Mate. Thanks for bringing this conversation and his wisdom forth. Would be an honour to meet him and hear him someday 😊🙏
What a wonderful conversation. Love the grandmother study. She was my rock, even though far away.
Beautiful conversation, thank you Helena and Gabor!💕🙌🏼
Helena u r brilliantly atuned to our desires and hopes. Gabor thank u for connecting to humanity AND whole food plant based nutrition!
Thank you. Such an informative and heartwarming conversation. As well as inspiring and motivating.
Wow. This has everything. Thank you, I am in awe of both of you. ❤️
A uploading to the truth what is rising up on the surface of our mind and body , THANK YOU for more openings discussion realization for important change in our lifestyle .Loving living in the peace & believe to rise up like the Phoenix from Ashes ...
This is so very precious!!!
Remarkably helpful, healing.
Why don’t we talk or even shout about that all the time!!?
Why don’t people want to see the absurd of this pseudomedical situation?!?!?
Thank you🤍
An interesting and informative talk. Thank you both for your contribution to humanity.
A deeply inspiring and insightful conversation
This was amazing!!! THANKYOU FOR SHARING YOUR MEDICINE!!
soul life affirming 👏
I convert is podcast into MP3 for my work and sometime I don't understand anything even the translator on UA-cam can't understand Gabor but I love the guy
I've heard many of Gabor's talks and interviews on UA-cam. He emphasizes the importance of bonding and connection, emotional and physical, between children and their parents. And here is what Helena says in her Ancient Futures book about how they used to raise children in Ladakh: "[Children] have continual physical contact with others, a factor that plays an important role in their development." "Men and women alike adore little children." "Children receive unlimited and unconditional affection from everyone around them." [Children] grow up surrounded by people of all ages ... they grow up as part of a whole chain of relationships, a chain of giving and taking." These are the things that are lacking, as Gabor describes, in the way most children are brought up in the "civilized" Western world.
I’m curious if my children are in better health to have my mother virtually accessible to us consistently as she can only visit twice yearly now -grandmothers are good for grandchildren!!
Fabulous conversation, thank you both. 💗
Thankyou 2 of my favorite people I wonder if Gabors seen Schooling the world ?
Thank you both so much for your care and compassion. I'm now disillusioned, but not with you
Oki, I would like to know what date your article was published ??? Thank you.
Excellent discussion
It would be nice to actually hear from the people in those countries in Africa or India or those people in general rather than just white people talking about it all the time from their point of view.i get it...I really do as someone who has spent some years living in Africa and trying to make sense of the inequalities and differences in how people live and the apparent unhappiness in much of the western world despite our relative wealth.
I really think we need to hear far more voices from those continents because sometimes I can't help but feel westerners can only speak from a very limited and outside perspective.I learned so much by listening to many people in Africa and came to realise so much about how we focus far too much on the intellect rather than our deeper inner knowing or intuition.
I agree studying Phd's in order to find out things which are blatantly common sense does seem a waste of time..not all academia of course but so much of it seems driven by a kind of egotistical need for status rather than acquiring knowledge that is of value and use and translatable into practical workable solutions.
,,,and yes I do agree women in general are far more tuned into this inner knowing and intuition than men are but we pay a price for this with often being emotional caretakers and men pay the price by being more disconnected from their emotions very often but more able to go out into the world and gain their validity through work and career..OK its changing but men still focus more on career very often than on being caregivers.
Well said
As an Indian, I agree
"They learned that grandmothers are good for grandkids" 😂
Gabor is like yo Helena, you wanna be my grandkid’s grandmother?😉
Does anybody know where I can find the film Gabor mentioned, called Babies? And he was not
sure of the name of the film.
can someone tell me what they meant by the treaties almost no one knows about?
Jac.B.Nijssen presents in his book Tackling Human Complexity 2018 a dynamical model of the inner workings of human beings. It focuses especially on the lifetime development of the interaction between feeling and thinking during the preparation and execution of behavior vis-à-vis an environment.
Greed for money is killing us. How cruel and barbaric we have become - while the rich laugh at the chaos they have caused while counting their hoarded gold.
thank you
Excellent
i adore Gabor and i cant stop watching videos with him. he repeatedly talks about the lost connection between young and elder. i wish i could be closer to my parents but i cant. they are very conservative and do not uderstand veganism at least. misuderstaning doesnt help to create loving and caring surroundings. so i moved to my own place. and the strange thing is we speak more often and dont argue now at all. do you think it can be healthier to be apart from elders?
Jose Arguelles/Volum Votan. 🙏
Apologists for capitalism say that we have never had it so good in terms of living conditions, access to clean water, food supplies, housing, benefits, access to medical care etc. And they say that if wealth wasn't created by capitalism we wouldn't have hospitals, food stores, water supplies, jobs etc. Can we really go back to living in tribes? We may have a nostalgic yearning for this but how many Western people, if given the choice of having a community but being poor would choose it? How can we reintroduce communities and mitigate the worst effects of capitalism? You are describing the problems well (we (the 'educated' liberals ARE disillusioned Gabor) but what can we do about it? We need to pay our bills and support our families and cope with living in this society. There isn't a lot of time for much else! And then there are those descended from the working class who support capitalism and may have their own house for example - they believe in the system and aspire to more. They brand critics of the system as Marxists or woke intellectuals and vote for Brexit to keep the foreigners out. So not only the billionaires and the corporations are against us but also our potential allies who believe in the capitalist dream.
Divide and conquer. Billions of dollars and countless man-hours are expended in order to keep us distracted, disoriented, demoralized, drugged, and divided so as to neutralize any threat we, the many, might pose to the system and the privileges and profits of the ruling class if only we understood how everything actually worked, what the real enemy was, and collectively organized and mobilized with clear vision and radical determination to overthrow this barbaric and inhumane “social” order and build a society that was oriented toward everyone’s universal and natural human needs rather than the private greed of capitalists and sociopathy of corporations.
"if only we understood how everything actually worked" how do we find this out? Do you have any reading recommendations? And why have we, at the bottom, particularly in England, been so passive and disunited?
@@Sue-rh4qj Watch Michael Parenti’s talks on UA-cam and read his books. As for the state of the British working class in particular, I’m not sure. I’m in the states. But I’m sure Thatcherism/Blairism had/has a lot to do with it.
It's tough. With a daughter who is mentally ill, it's impossible to be in the grandchildren lives. The kids are bound to rebel eventually and then peer culture takes over.
Reading or listening to highly "technical" information doesn't give the majority of us a nice hit of bodily chemistry. We are, for the most part, a bunch of addicts looking for the next fix. We've been groomed unwittingly to be that way; maybe even unintentionally in the beginning. Once the cat was out of the bag though, those with ulterior motives took the reigns and kept up the momentum.
One by one, we're going to have to suffer by degrees, go through withdrawals and discover long term satisfaction over short term fixes.
At 7:20- I moved from my birth town Portland, Or to Phoenix, Az back in 2012 and for the most part, nothing in Portland is exactly the same. There are a lot of small businesses (although less now, I'm sure) and in Phoenix every light there's a strip mall with the same chain restaurants and corporate shops. Shopping shopping and more shopping. I feel literally sick. No culture, no trees, no green, no semi cheap food cart with fusioned cultures. No drivers that know to watch out for bicycles and pedestrians. It's a soulless place to be in comparison to Portland, but I hear Portland has had it's own big issues. This country's "system" is all about big pharma and big banks. Enjoyment in life is not as important as getting the people sick so they have medical bills to pay, run out of money, then banks can have their homes again. Yuck!
Not just the rights of (matriarch) grandmas and children are denied but the parents are not kept in check. The primary or 'nuclear' family is an unbalanced 'community' without wider generational input, incl loving aunts, uncles & cousins who we replace with unrelated doctors & therapists. No wonder we are emotionally impoverished. Exclusive patriarchy has to go.
Yes. Children are treated like possessions, like the exclusive "property" of their parents. As are other species and the Earth. No sense that they have their own separate consciousness. What else would one expect from such a narcissistic, materialistic culture?
@@rain1956 I recently witnessed 2 adults screaming at their 2 little kids & had to intervene. Usually we are all inclined to look away as if it's 'not our business' but that wouldn't be true if we still lived in small communities with a range of age groups. Too much is hidden behind closed doors.
I grew up in a traditional patriarchy but that was in service of the underlying matriarchy. Please don’t throw terminology around aggressively. You could be defeating yourself. Men are not the root of all evil.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
World Localization Day, Helena Norberg-Hodge
Wonderful but........with all that insight how do you have any hope or desire to keep living.
A bit of a rant here, so bear with me:
I wish they would not gender care-giving. I know of men who have been good care-givers, as well men who have been advocates for equity. And I know of women who have created toxic family systems and/or contributed to larger (and toxic) societal systems.
I believe whenever there is inequity it is typically rooted in dysfunctional environments (whether micro, mezzo or macro level, typically all three) and I really wish that were addressed by these two since they do believe in mind/body unity.
In this vein, I find it hard to credibly take them seriously since theirs were the generations which had the massive numerical power (in the 1960's and beyond) to overturn the rapacious capitalism that was curbed by previous generations in the 1930's. How many of those privileged Boomers, in Canada, are smoking their now conveniently state-regulated cannabis in their polluting cottages in lands that should be left pristine (or returned to FNMI people), employing temporary foreign workers, and after selling their once socially subsidized homes in a nation where the average home is now upwards of $700,000? They are cashing out their pensions that were bled for by their progenitors and kept barely aloft by successive generations. OK, Boomers indeed...
This is not meant to be a generalization of all in that cohort (since there are many who have been marginalized among them too, who were denied the opportunities of the privileged) and there as well are those who have worked for and practiced equity through both their words and actions, only that you'll excuse me if I wrestle with the obvious favorable demographic trends that have in general benefited the most privileged of that generation and is once again being ignored by ostensibly progressive social advocates.
That all being said, I do recognize (and what perhaps Mate has lost sight of-not sure if Norberg-Hodge ever believed in equity) that the most critical axis of oppression continues to be economic class (which these two both dance around, however elegantly) and everything else-race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, etc-is all inferior to and subsumed in that the least addressed and still most oppressive driver of inequity.
Interesting, well said, but I am 55 widow, single mom since day 1. Dad died - no insurance, I was homeless in my early twenties as I had addiction, I work for over a (this last) decade at a job with no raises (wage freeze thru out company) and I am grateful to have a job, seriously its terrifying outside my door I see too many homeless. I am one year away from being a boomer. I have no education but I taught myself a trade. Dont know if young people can do that now? I bought a house 20 years ago by myself but I bought a power of sale, it was a shithouse lol but have been renovating it since I bought it. I paid 88K but can sell it for ? 600k but why would I? I cant find another house that I can afford. I keep it for my daughter to sell or whatever as she will struggle to afford a house if things don’t change. They are both boomers but I was just looking at their rooms they are in & their houses - look like humble plain not great, snd was surprised neither looked vulgar wealthy. But I agree - every day i WISH we could go back to the 70’s…. food was healthy, we didnt wear sunscreen or seatbelts & played outside alone (without parents) it was just happier as far as I can remember. I like Gabor Mate because of his book hungry ghosts. Dont know how the woman is. Anyways not all boomers had it easy, i grew up with ADD and other stuff that didnt even exist then lol
@@Fefe559 There is no doubt but that there are those in that Boomer cohort who were left behind by both privilege and opportunity (and those in other generations who did benefit and exploit disproportionately privilege and opportunity)...but that Boomer generation certainly squeezed the hard-won socialized infrastructure that they collectively dismantled since the 1970's. And we should not kid ourselves about that prosperity-it was gained at the expense of others, whether it was the developing world, temporary foreign workers, exploitative immigration policies, the off-loading of debt onto successive generations, selfish and short-sighted economic policies and almost unimaginable privatization of once socialized services and that once lauded infrastructure.
In my opinion, right now we as a species need loving-kindness, equity and inclusive long-term planning not myopic nostalgia and I hope you inculcate such values into those you touch in your own life because, again in my narrow view, they are the foundation for not only wellness but a sustainable, equitable world.
@@Fefe559 ...and most importantly I do sincerely wish you wellness and loving-kindness on your journey.
Trauma Theory
Blah blah blah. Who can afford mental health??? $600 a mont at lest???