Dr. Taylor Cummings

And that's why for me, it's less about trying to change the system.

Y'all have a right to do whatever y'all want to do for you.

you and yours, design your cities how you want to design them, have whatever laws you want to have for your people, put whatever you want to put in the food for your people.

And so that's why sovereignty and self-governance is so important to me because you can do whatever you want to do for you, but you have a problem when now you're trying to impose that way of being and thinking and living on other people.

And so really understanding how to self-organize, I think is important.

And when we talk about these cooperative economic models and

sustainability and all these things like we have to create for ourselves.

So we don't need to rely on them.

We don't need your roads.

We don't need your car.

We don't need that.

And our technology over here doing this.

And you're going to need that, you know.

And so when it comes back down to resources, too, and how we how we think about creation and imagination, because we're replicating what we already have here.

But real creation is really taking something that we've never yet experienced, something that we may not even have the words for yet.

And a word may not even exist to be able to make sense of what it is that we're gonna create.

And so that's also why I think hip hop was big for me and my use of the way that I employed it in my dissertation with hip hop hermeneutics, because I started to really understand, okay, greatness really comes from the mind and our imagination and the creativity.

And we know rhyming also activates both sides of our brain.

And so we have this myth of I'm left brain or I'm right brain, but it really is an integration of these processes

that really help us to make something out of nothing.