Hi everyone. Welcome to becoming the people. So I've been in a lot of reflection about vision.

Who gets to have vision?

Who doesn't get to have vision?

Whose visions are we living inside of?

These questions feel critical to me

for understanding what's going on in the world

and how we navigate our way through these rough terrains.

And one of the things that's been sitting with me a lot

is the vision that I think, particularly

the right has for our lives and our relationships and our

societies and that it's one that is unfortunately derivative of visions I think we've lived inside of for a long time.

The attempt to roll back time is to recover those same social relationships and ways of constructing the world that we've lived in for

hundreds of years at this point.

The harder work it seems is creating or conjuring a vision of something we haven't yet seen.

And I say we haven't yet seen it in part because all of us come from visionary people and people that were able to conjure worlds

that our ancestors lived in and flourished in. And yet we face a particular set of circumstances that few of

our ancestors, if any, ever had to face. Not only are we facing compounding crises in this time, but we're doing it

with people that are different than us, perhaps unfamiliar to us,

and these questions of how we vision for ourselves and our people

and what our visions for our liberation

has to do with each other's deliberations are complicated.

I don't have any answers here, just a lot of questions,

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