Earlier this year, I was approached by a major publisher - a division of Penguin Random House - and asked to consider writing a book for them.<\/p>\n
I wrote a quite extensive proposal which described what I called the politics of care, about which I have already written this morning in the context of Donald Trump\u2018s acknowledgement that much of his behaviour is driven by hate.<\/p>\n
When working on that idea, I became interested in the possibility of care not just being a word, but also a mnemonic potentially representing a whole range of ideas, using the letters CARE to explore how such thinking could be used to examine just what the term 'care' might mean.<\/p>\n
In the end, I came up with seven mnemonics for care, although I never determined which one should be used above all else.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m interested in what readers here might think, and I will be asking using four polls, which are at the bottom of this post, and I am genuinely interested in the answers if you are willing to participate in this.<\/p>\n
My thinking suggested the C might stand for:<\/p>\n
Similarly, I came up with this list using the letter A (which was the hardest to do):<\/p>\n
Then I compiled the following possible meanings suggested by the letter R:<\/p>\n
Finally, I came up with this list of ideas that the letter E could represent:<\/p>\n
I reckoned that by the time I had got this far, I had pushed the idea sufficiently to think that, amongst these options, the most useful might be found.<\/p>\n
That said, I did realise that putting these together in different ways might result in different spins being put on the various combinations that might make up the mnemonic CARE.\u00a0 Although I gave this a bit of thought, I will not pursue that further, here and now. Instead, might I ask that you think about which of these terms you prefer? In each of the four polls, you can use a maximum of three votes. I am looking forward to seeing the answers.<\/p>\n
Poll 1 -<\/strong> What might the C in CARE stand for? You have three votes.<\/p>\n