Amanda

Some sort of survival of the fittest thing we're doing that is still tied to individualism, that is still tied to like, I just have to give my kid the edge.

so that she can make it, which is so awful.

And so we shouldn't have to live that way.

And also, wouldn't it be amazing if we switched to collectivism, which is like, how do we create a different world where they all get to survive and thrive?

not just through the skin of their teeth and through our manipulation and obsession, but because there are structures that make sure that no one falls through the cracks.

They're just all completely tied together and it's a chicken and an egg thing.

And I think that you're exactly right.

It's going to take a lot of people to opt out of the individualism and exceptionalism and go be in community.

But it's like, if I take my eye off the ball, my kid's going to fall behind and we're still in this old system and it's going to take opting out anyway.

There's something about what happens to our bodies.

I just can't overstate the importance in my body of, I think there's something about watching what's happening.

Watching the, quote, leaders who are being put in front of us, the Jared Kushners, those sniveling, unqualified, ridiculous, idiotic white men who are children and are attempting to lead.

Watching those people, watching the visual of ICE with these rabid guard dogs of white supremacy unleashed as power.

Watching these Trump, like there's just these images that are just, we're watching.

be put up as leaders.

What happens in my body, just seeing that over and over again is just a disembodied terror.

And then what I'm trying to explain to you is to sit in a park with a group that I organize with and watching this couple, their names are Fernando and Leslie.

We sat in a circle for three hours two days ago.

And Fernando and Leslie, Fernando knows the history of everything and teaches and teaches and teaches.

And then Leslie comes in and says, okay, that's enough facts.