Justin Scott

The system knows how to do that.

Your joy system does not know how to do that all the way, right?

Finds that suspicious.

it's forward facing for them it's like one of the main things that they're chasing at all times they want to be happy right right and I think one of the biggest questions that like I think most adults need to sit with is for real like when is the last time that you felt non-performative joy right like not joy to match the setting right not joy because you paid for it so you're going to be happy now I'm talking about non-performative joy right because that's the type of stuff that gets people free

It really is.

Because I always think about things like, what was bondage like?

What was it like in that environment?

Well, there wasn't no happiness in that environment.

Nobody was happy to be in chains.

But we did find joy.

It is.

They don't get how foundational it is because they themselves have been still in bondage.

It's one of those things where people don't understand that you're supposed to feel freedom.

You're supposed to feel freedom.

It's not some kind of spiritualized concept.

It's a felt thing.

But a lot of folks, they sit there and they don't realize that they are just in new chains.

They in new chains.

See, and this is one of those things that even when we talk about like how white people see things, white people believe in instrumentality, right?

Like the belief that like all, anything could be used, right?