Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we're in

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down

Down, down

She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

No, we break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

Hello, good evening, good day.

Hope you guys had a good Memorial Day weekend, decoration day to be specific.

I want to get into today's conversation.

It's going to be a bit of a lengthy one

because I don't know if y'all saw what the Pope did this weekend, but what the Pope did this

weekend is somewhat related to what Peter Thiel and tech surveillance company billionaires have

been ruminating about for the past several months. And so let's start with the past because why not?

Many, many years ago, Octavia Butler wrote this amazing series called Parable of the Soar. It's really the parable series. It was supposed to be a trilogy. She ended up transitioning to the ancestral realm before the third version or the third installation of the series could be written. But it's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talent. And these were books that, I believe the first one was written in the mid-1990s, and that first book is set in a future, a dystopian future, 2024, in America, where there is a presidential candidate by the name of Donald Connor, who is running to make America great again. I'm telling you black people are prophetic, because we'd be knowing shit. We'd be knowing shit. But in this future dystopian novel, this series, you have, at least in the second edition of it anyway, in Parable of the Talents, we're still following the story of this loose group of people that came together. They're, again, living in a very dystopic America. There is no such thing as like the United States of America. By this point, all of the individual states are like their own, almost like their own countries. And in the second book, the black, Latino, Asian, poor white people who had gathered together and who are working to try to figure out like what the future is going to look like, all of them could be enslaved. And in fact, were enslaved thanks to the unleashed power of digital surveillance and technology. I mean, I remember

reading the book and reading the descriptions of the digital collars that would be able to

keep you under control by zapping electricity through your body, connected to these systems

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