Update: Things Are (Still) Bad
Endless Thread
WBUR
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In the aftermath of a violent mob storming the U.S. Capitol building, we got back in touch with Indi Samarajiva. Indi's a writer who lived through the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, and he was featured in "Things Are Bad," an episode we released last October in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
The team caught up with Indi again to ask him about his thoughts on last week's events.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey guys, we've all been processing the attack on the US Capitol last week, and the |
| 0:19.9 | attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory. |
| 0:24.2 | And yes, we're technically on a break here at Endless Thread, but when the team regrouped |
| 0:28.9 | to the very next day, we wondered what will Indy have to say about this? |
| 0:34.5 | Indy Summer Jiva is a writer we featured in last October's Endless Thread series in an |
| 0:39.1 | episode called Things Are Bad. |
| 0:42.2 | We asked whether America was on the road to a second civil war. |
| 0:46.4 | Indy lived through the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, and he had a message for Americans. |
| 0:53.5 | I moved back to Sri Lanka in my 20s, just as the ceasefire fell apart. |
| 0:57.1 | Do you know what it was like for me? |
| 0:59.4 | Quite normal. |
| 1:00.6 | I went to work, I went out, I dated. |
| 1:04.0 | This is what Americans don't understand. |
| 1:06.4 | They waited to get personally punched in the face while ash falls from the sky. |
| 1:10.5 | That's not how it happens. |
| 1:12.3 | This is how it happens. |
| 1:13.8 | Precisely what you're feeling now. |
| 1:16.1 | The numbing litany of bad news. |
| 1:18.4 | The ever rising outrages. |
| 1:20.8 | People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you while you think about dinner. |
| 1:26.3 | If you're trying to carry on while people around you die, your society is not collapsing. |
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