Ed Calderon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, in some deep sense, we're all connected.
We all come from Western Africa, and then all came from fish before then, depending on your view of history, of life on Earth.
But there is a oneness to us, and often you forget that in conflict.
Love is stronger than anything else, I think.
Conversation like any other.
Between two friends.
He hugs me before I go.
So it was very low for you.
It hit very hard.
You weren't allowed.
Other people, also you yourself, were not allowing yourself to grieve.
So there's significant pressure not to leave.
It's hard to leave this kind of job.
The system makes it difficult to leave.
The individuals, to the degree they might be corrupted, really don't want you to leave.
And it's probably the opposite of support.
Almost like implied or explicit or implicit threats.
And then your own personal psychological, the PTSD of going from a war zone to an avocado orchard.
Yeah, you write on your Patreon brilliantly.