Suzette Brooks Masters

How do we want to live together?

How do we safeguard our collective futures?

And I think one of the biggest challenges, though, that I think is going to be particularly difficult to tackle in the U.S.

is we need policies that are in our collective self-interest.

but we are in an immensely individualistic country.

And that's the nut to crack in the US.

Because we don't have a strong tradition of collectivism.

No, hello.

Lovely to be here.

I am currently in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I am spending more time because I am a new grandmother.

Oh, congratulations.

And so I'm splitting my time between New York City, where I'm from and where I live, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wow.

You're starting with the really easy questions at very early hour.

It is true what you say, that things have gone faster and been more extreme than many people feared.

And I think a lot of people who voted in Trump didn't even really understand what they were enabling and

And I don't pretend to have a silver bullet, but I think that the roots of fighting authoritarianism successfully will combine ways of getting people to connect with other people in common purpose that feels authentic.

And that feels like it can actually change the way they live their lives where they live.

So I think there's a lot that's written theoretically about new systems, ways of being.

But I think at the end of the day, it's going to be real people in real places coming together.