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Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Immigrants crossing the border near Agua Prieta, Sonora, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona.

Welcome to Season Two of Home of the Brave. This is the first of a series about the US/Mexico border and the present immigration situation. For background, I replay an interview with Charles Bowden recorded just a couple hundred yards from the barbed wire fence separating the two countries in the spring of 2005.

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Migrants from Mexico crossing into the United States at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Sasabe, Arizona, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona.

The best place for books by Charles Bowden is Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. They ship all over the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier. I started this
0:06.4	podcast three and a half years ago by asking the question, is this the end of the
0:11.3	world as we know it?
0:13.0	I'm going to begin this second season by answering,
0:16.0	Yes, this is the end of the world as we know it.
0:19.0	We're not going to stop the climate from changing.
0:22.0	We won't win the war on terrorism. There will
0:25.6	be no social revolution. Hope for solutions is false hope, an illusion. So the question for the second season becomes how do you live a good
0:36.6	life, a meaningful and moral life in a world that's falling apart all around you? There's got to be a way because we've been
0:45.1	through this before. We've survived the collapse of empires. We've lived through
0:50.4	the Ice Age. Somehow we got through it, but how? I asked my friend Alex
0:56.8	called Yarrow and he told me to mind my own business. Mind your own business, meaning he said, keep doing what you're good at, what you enjoy.
1:07.7	Keep working at that and don't quit.
1:10.5	That's how we get through it, by everybody minding their own business and not giving up
1:15.2	Because that's what the man big brother wants to force you to stop minding your own business so you can mind his business all the time.
1:26.2	So I'm going to start minding my own business by driving down to the border to talk to people
1:31.3	about the immigration situation. I don't even know what to call it.
1:37.0	It's not an invasion. The number of people coming north over the past few years
1:42.0	is about a third what it was back before the economic
1:45.1	crash of 2008 and it's not a crisis we've had thousands of people crossing the
1:51.4	border illegally every day for decades, a million or more a year.
1:57.4	They end up finding jobs and paying taxes and they commit far fewer violent crimes than people who were born here.
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