#the excluded

[manu-maddi]

[rabbitsmoontarot]

Any group, any family, is only as successful as its individual members are successful.

People who feel excluded tend to lash out, go against their own kind, to go against their own best interests. 

Why do so many women feel excluded from the family of women? 

[thirstygargoyle]

The excluded, I believe, live certain values that we all need to discover and to live ourselves before we can become truly human. It is not just a question of performing good deeds for those who are excluded but of being open and vulnerable for them in order to receive the life that they can offer; it is to become their friends. If we start to include the disadvantaged in our lives and enter into heartfelt relationships with them, they will change things in us. They will call us to be people of mutual trust, to take time to listen and to be with each other. They will call us out from our individualism and need for power into belonging to each other and being open to others. They will break down the prejudices and protective walls that gave rise to exclusion in the first place. They will then start to affect our human organizations, revealing new ways of being and walking together.

Jean Vanier, Becoming Human, 84.

[gemeinwesen]

the 'precariat' is a sort of stillborn group, whose gestation is necessarily unfinished since one can work to consolidate it only to help its members flee from it, either by finding a haven in stable wage labour or by escaping from the world of work altogether (through social redistribution and state protection). Contrary to the proletariat in the Marxist vision of history, which is called upon to abolish itself in the long term by uniting and universalizing itself, the 'precariat' can only make itself to immediately unmake itself.

Loic Wacquant, Urban Outcasts