Sarah Wilson

It's very hard to face the enormity of everything, you know, the everythingness that's happening.

Overwhelm is a predominant response to all of this and it's completely understandable, not aided by the fact that the bad faith actors in all of this, leaders who are coming in and filling out this space of uncertainty and disruption,

they are bringing chaos to the situation.

You know, Steve Bannon in the US, who advises the Trump administration, openly advises the Trump team to flood the zone with shit.

You know, the Romans used bread and circuses to distract people from what was happening.

The leadership that is actually filling this vacuum, this space at the moment, is doing the same thing.

And so it's adding to the overwhelm.

So our ability to cope with all of this is extremely, extremely stretched.

You know, a common question I get asked in all of this Ruby is, well, should we be prepping?

Should we be, you know, fleeing to the hills and homesteading?

My answer to that is absolutely not because it doesn't work.

It's never worked.

Less than 5% of these kinds of so-called intentional communities ever last longer than five years.

And that is because we as a species only ever get through tough, dark, liminal times like the one we find ourselves in now as a collective.

We actually need to be in a community of at least 100 to 150 people to survive difficult times.

So that's something that we need to bear in mind at all times and I think Australians are particularly well equipped for that.

So rather than getting overwhelmed, what we need to be doing is

is accepting that it is bigger than what we can cope with.

It is happening.

And one of the best ways to actually hold humanity through this is to actually be together.