Questions
1) The long term is definitely the place to put your focus but how can you focus on the long term while making sure that you don't lose sight of what is happening in the present?
2) How can understanding and relating to other people, specifically in this case maybe people who voted for Trump, not be confused or turned into forgiveness?
3) I agree with him on the opinions of love but in my experience I've seen that love is a really easy thing to say how do you do it?
Observations
1) I really liked what he talked about in regards to masculinity where he said he was victim as much as a beneficiary, and the creating of the invulnerable male subject and how this creates an inhuman. This becomes really interesting to look at the patriarchy in a way that it isn't usually which is a double edged sword, which uses its powers to suppress different sides in very different ways.
2) How easy it is to revel in the negative his statement that "let's be real we all new this shit wasn't going to be easy" forces people to say, instead of 'well the world's going to shit', 'what can we do about it?'
3) This idea of there being contradictions to society and that one of the big contradictions being that people view things in non-antagonistic and antagonistic ways. This is where rifts form between people and the necessity of people to be able to try to understand other realities that might be contradictory to yours.
My idea of radical hope truly goes down to one of the things that Díaz discussed in the interview. That love is enough, love matters. As he talked about in the interview the ability to truly love requires you to be truly vulnerable and this means we must bring down our walls. We exist in a society that does not promote us to be vulnerable, instead we tend to be more aggressive in our thinking lending us more to the qualities of hate. This is a construct that has been directly built and perpetrated by our society in an effort, I believe, to keep us divided and with this division progress toward equality and fairness becomes an almost impossible task. It's interesting to me that the idea that love is enough can be called optimistic or naive or even juvenile; to me that shows how crucial it is that we use love. This idea that love is an easy go is a stigma that our society has created to stop us from trying it. Love is not easy. Love is damn hard. Accepting people for their faults as well as their greatness, truly connecting with the person that you encounter instead falling to your preconceived stigmas. I think one of the things he challenges us to do in the interview is acknowledge how we are all victims, in one way or another, of the same system. One my favorite things that he said in the interview was that an act of love was revolutionary; I think that's really true. The ability to connect, to relate, to be vulnerable(these things that society trains us not to do) are all achieved when we force ourselves to love openly and to be frank, dangerously. My radical hope is love, because in my mind, love is our best weapon
1) The long term is definitely the place to put your focus but how can you focus on the long term while making sure that you don't lose sight of what is happening in the present?
2) How can understanding and relating to other people, specifically in this case maybe people who voted for Trump, not be confused or turned into forgiveness?
3) I agree with him on the opinions of love but in my experience I've seen that love is a really easy thing to say how do you do it?
Observations
1) I really liked what he talked about in regards to masculinity where he said he was victim as much as a beneficiary, and the creating of the invulnerable male subject and how this creates an inhuman. This becomes really interesting to look at the patriarchy in a way that it isn't usually which is a double edged sword, which uses its powers to suppress different sides in very different ways.
2) How easy it is to revel in the negative his statement that "let's be real we all new this shit wasn't going to be easy" forces people to say, instead of 'well the world's going to shit', 'what can we do about it?'
3) This idea of there being contradictions to society and that one of the big contradictions being that people view things in non-antagonistic and antagonistic ways. This is where rifts form between people and the necessity of people to be able to try to understand other realities that might be contradictory to yours.
My idea of radical hope truly goes down to one of the things that Díaz discussed in the interview. That love is enough, love matters. As he talked about in the interview the ability to truly love requires you to be truly vulnerable and this means we must bring down our walls. We exist in a society that does not promote us to be vulnerable, instead we tend to be more aggressive in our thinking lending us more to the qualities of hate. This is a construct that has been directly built and perpetrated by our society in an effort, I believe, to keep us divided and with this division progress toward equality and fairness becomes an almost impossible task. It's interesting to me that the idea that love is enough can be called optimistic or naive or even juvenile; to me that shows how crucial it is that we use love. This idea that love is an easy go is a stigma that our society has created to stop us from trying it. Love is not easy. Love is damn hard. Accepting people for their faults as well as their greatness, truly connecting with the person that you encounter instead falling to your preconceived stigmas. I think one of the things he challenges us to do in the interview is acknowledge how we are all victims, in one way or another, of the same system. One my favorite things that he said in the interview was that an act of love was revolutionary; I think that's really true. The ability to connect, to relate, to be vulnerable(these things that society trains us not to do) are all achieved when we force ourselves to love openly and to be frank, dangerously. My radical hope is love, because in my mind, love is our best weapon
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