Sean Penn

It's a good question, and I think a very good question for everyone to ask, what is America?

Which, by the way, of course, we know never fulfilled its promise to everybody.

We know that, but that's part of, it takes time to grow, and I'm okay with that.

And I'm sorry if I'm in a lucky crew because of the color of my skin or the gender or whatever.

But just sitting back, it looks like things are going to take time.

My father was blacklisted by the country he fought and risked his life for and had 100 medals on his chest.

And they told him he couldn't work again in the country.

And he couldn't even get any bitterness going towards it.

He just said, hey, speed bumps in the making of a country.

was during the hollywood blacklist just for people who don't know yeah and i and i aspire to to think that way we're in a period of incredible unpredictability and chaos and ugliness a lot of ugliness stupidity over dependence on technology a misuse of it disconnection but

Maybe the way to deal with that is to say, that's okay.

What do I do tomorrow?

And this fight for freedom, and by the way, that's when it happens.

It happens in a fight.

Everything we always celebrated in America happened in a fight.

And guess why?

That's what being human is.

So there's a great conversation with the former president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica, Jose Pepe Mujica, but Pepe to his friends, let's say.

And he was turning on its head this old idea that's been hardwired into us, how if we don't understand history, we are bound to repeat it.

When in fact, all history tells us