Questions:
1.) What does Diaz mean by living centuries ahead in their bodies?2.) Diaz says that there is nothing more critical than to be misaligned with any mainstream society. However what if counter-culture has taken to becoming mainstream in a way? What would he say to those that are pushing that rhetoric? Is it going too far? Should it be only personal?
3.) As a Jew who had many of my family members killed during the Holocaust, the concept that silence is stronger than any form of language actually perplexes me. What if silence means your death?
Observations:
1.) I feel that a lot of the conversation was too heady and completely left those that weren't intellectuals behind.
2.) I view the concept of people having venerable needs and then telling themselves that they don't need them to be very home hitting. I see people all the time depriving themselves of what they need.
3.) He says that our political/economic systems have destabilized the planet but yet I would argue that we couldn't be in the position to view the destabilization without having created the systems in the first place. We needed them to advance. Humans are a growing species and we need mistakes in order to move forward.
Vision:
I couldn't truly say my vision for radical hope, because I think that it is a personal thing for everyone. Personally I haven't found my own radical hope and found myself searching in the dark for what it means to me. I can see how it relates to him with how the world has changed for people of color, but for myself as a White Jewish male, I don't know what radical hope I could hold for myself. Maybe it's because I've come to terms with being the scapegoat which is a form of apathy toward my own situation.
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