Hello everybody. Welcome back to Red Menace.

All right. On today's episode, we had originally planned an episode to kind of talk about the life and legacy of Gassan Kanafani, you know, the Palestinian Freedom Fighter.

And we will get to that eventually. I think that's important to kind of do historical theoretical

work on particular Palestinian liberation fighters and you know founders of the pflp etc so we

will get to that eventually but at this point we just felt like there was so much shit happening in

the world that we had to kind of just kind of work through it for our own sake,

our own sanity, and hopefully to help other people have not only the cathartic release of hearing

other people who they, you know, hopefully respect and, you know, whose opinions align with

their own talk about these issues, but also for the, you know, analytical depth and theoretical

depth that hopefully we can bring to it to have some clarity about everything that's happening.

So we'll see if we achieve that goal.

But obviously, Allison is with me again today.

And I think we're going to start off just kind of talking about the overall vibe of the situation and how each of us can try to kind of really kind of stay sane

in what feels like an escalating dystopia where our enemies are in power all over the world

and things seem to genuinely be getting worse and kind of how we can make sense of that

in relation to our own personal

existences and what it means for the rest of our lives. But Allison, welcome and any opening

thoughts you might have before we get into that. Yeah, no, I mean, I think this will be good

to talk through. I think, you know, from my perspective, just like discussing it kind of

subjectively, you text him with Brett a little bit in the lead up to this episode, but it feels like at this

moment, we're not just seeing like a crisis in American society and then the international

ripples of that and like the classic sense.

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