Amaka Nadeau
speaker
208 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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people don't do these things and so like follow me here because that might seem like a big jump but i think obviously you have to stretch yourself in or you have to expend yourself in some way to interact with people you don't know and you can't control or know what the interaction will be like so i definitely don't know that like if i talk to this person it's going to be a good interaction it's going to be a bad interaction so it's always going to be easier and more convenient for me to like keep my headphones in or keep my mouth shut or not help
And so over time, we like, when you stop doing these things, it's never going to be convenient in the short term.
It's never going to be as entertaining in the short term than like staying in and watching Netflix and ordering food to your front door or like just keeping your mouth shut and keeping your headphones in.
And so when you look at the short term, you're like, oh, I'm doing the thing that's most beneficial for me.
And we've all decided that the thing that's most beneficial for me is what I'm going to go with.
But over time, what we don't realize is like in the long term,
that variability and like, even though you don't know what the end of that interaction is going to be is what provides a lot of the robustness of life.
And so I think we've all as a gender generationally and throughout American culture, I think it's happening across generations.
So but I think it's definitely been exacerbated by social media and just convenience and accessibility that has been really brought on on our phones.
We trade really short term excitement and enjoyment for very long term benefits.
And I think it's really hard to figure out how to fix it because there's no really solution at scale.
I think in almost like a religion of economics, how do we do this scalably across the whole nation in one piece of legislation or one fail-sweep?
America is so diverse, so the solution to this problem is going to look different across America.
across all of these groups and i think it's really difficult to do this in like a really broad stroke scalable way i really i personally really do believe it comes from like a grassroots like small incremental rebuilding of the interpret the personal connections of the people we can physically see
and then i think like it builds over time i don't think there's really a way unless like the government somehow facilitates like a teach or teach for america but like get to meet america and i don't think the government is going to do that certainly not this one a hundred percent yeah um amaka do you have like three four five more minutes that you can stick around absolutely for you of course
So he brought a Black person in her two-tone shirt to talk about the Blacks blacking it up over on the Upper East Side at the Met Gala.
Don't worry, I'm here, everybody, to talk about Black people being Black.
I'm actually going to be incredibly positive because I love Black people.
I think Tracee Ellis Ross looked phenomenal.
I think actually just going back to the spirit of Black dandyism, so much of what Black people have done is like really shown and defied society through their fashion.
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