Another World is Possible [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Dictators want us to think that the future is hopeless, that their cult of personality will last forever. Gaslit Nation exists to remind us that another world is possible. The experts we've brought on the show over the years have shown us how. In this special episode, we're starting 2024 right, with a chorus of voices guiding us to envision the world we want to live in.
To start us off, Andrea is joined by Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats podcast to share their hopes for 2024, and how they plan to contribute to building the livable future they envision. Share your hopes for 2024 in the comments below or in an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com, and we may read your comments on the show!
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year, everyone. |
| 0:08.5 | 2024 is our year. |
| 0:11.1 | We are going to fact check the forces of disinformation, |
| 0:15.9 | working against us and trying to divide us and help everyone stay grounded and focused and sane. And in doing that, |
| 0:23.4 | I am joined by the essential journalist Terrell Star of the Must Listen to Black Diplomats podcast, |
| 0:31.4 | subscribe to them on YouTube, where Terrell takes you along his adventures in Ukraine. |
| 0:38.1 | These are beautiful videos to watch to see everyday Ukrainians coming together and fighting the forces of fascism for the world. |
| 0:46.8 | Thank you, Terrell, for being here. |
| 0:48.4 | Terrell and I are going to share our hopes, our manifestations, for the world in 2024, as we face a dangerous crossroads of democracy versus fascism worldwide. |
| 1:01.2 | And then he's going to count us down to a montage of extraordinary voices that have been on the show in recent years, |
| 1:09.3 | calling on us to embrace the fact that another |
| 1:12.9 | world is possible and how we get there. So I want to say, Terrell, I'll start my, I don't even |
| 1:18.6 | want to call it New Year's resolution because New Year's resolutions are known to fail, right? |
| 1:23.6 | So I'm not going to say, here are my New Year's resolutions for the world. We're all going to |
| 1:26.8 | be in our best shape ever, and we're all going to like watch what we eat, not smoke, not drink. And world peace, because then, you know, we're not going to get any of that. So I will just say simply this. My manifestation, the energy I'm putting out there is greater empathy, greater kindness for ourselves and others, for us to strive to always be on |
| 1:47.1 | the right side of history by grounding what's going on in the world from the perspective of those |
| 1:53.2 | who are voiceless, who are treated as collateral damage, who are the civilians caught in the |
| 1:58.6 | middle of the crossfire, and to always be led by that North Star |
| 2:02.0 | and to understand that none of us are safe if there are if there's unchecked power, |
| 2:07.5 | unchecked greed in the world. None of us are safe. There's no compromises. There's no deals you can do |
| 2:12.0 | with the devil. There's always a bill to pay when you do that. So that's the energy I want to put out there is really |
| 2:18.9 | staying grounded in that and to hold the hand of a lot of historical mentors who have been |
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