Garrison Davis

This one was just coincided with a midterm in a way that allowed it to become like a political football game.

And the American government is like, we are stopping them at the border so we can check if everyone's okay.

And the government in Mexico is like, well, we are taking care of them.

And you get there and you're like, fuck.

Like, these people haven't had water today.

And at that point, you know, I was already sort of predisposed to thinking that perhaps the state didn't have all the answers.

And to be clear, the Mexican state's a lot more than the U.S.

state in this instance.

Yeah.

provided these people with a place to be which it would have been much worse if they hadn't had that but like it was just this realization i was with a few friends all of us happened at the time to be like full-time bicycle people so um we didn't have jobs that needed us to be like in a place at 9 a.m so that realization that like if these people are going to get water today they're

It's going to be because we go to Costco and buy all the water bottles.

And then we ride back while slowly destroying the suspension of this pickup truck because we've got so much weight in it and give them out.

Because no one else is going to.

There's this whole world of NGOs and governments and states and it didn't matter.

These people still didn't have water.

I think also that instability within the system is part of it.

They all are ways for the powers that be to expand their wealth in some way, to expand their reach in certain territories.

And people, for the most part, just go along with it.

You know, it's hard to grapple with the existential threats that we face.

I don't have time to in many cases, especially when you have an administrative strategy that