Sarah Jaffe

What would it be like, again, to organize a world around making sure everybody is cared for in that way?

And not just because those people have, like, worked really hard at building up good personal social networks, but because we all deserve it.

And we deserve that time off when we need it.

And we deserve to rest when we need it.

And we deserve to be fed when we don't have the energy to cook for ourselves.

You know, we deserve things as basic as a roof over our head.

Like just these basic, basic things that like we can do as a world, as a society, we can make sure that everybody is cared for.

Absolutely.

The line that gets repeated all the time and is credited alternately to Slavoj Žižek and Frederick Jameson is that, right, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

And the Jewish tradition teaches that every life is a world, right?

So the end of every life is a whole world ending.

And so when you have to imagine the end of your personal world, somebody that close to you that is gone, right?

that you can't sort of just go through the world in the same way.

At first, you can't imagine anything.

But then slowly it's like, oh, well, I have to imagine everything anew anyway.

And maybe in that space, there is a possibility of imagining it better.

Thank you.

It's been great.