USA! (But wait, There's More) | Frankly #27
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Recorded March 29, 2023
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In this Frankly, Nate reflects on the varying perspectives from which people perceive the meta-crisis relative to their own circumstances. This extends to the countries we live in and the particular economic/social situations we are part of. But each of these is part of a wider systems lens that we should at least keep in mind and respect - even if it doesn't feel like our central cause. The challenging times ahead will have huge implications for the social progress of the last few centuries on local, national, and international levels. There will never be one solution to such grand scale problems. As we work on responding to these challenges, keeping in mind the scope and complexity of these issues might allow us to approach them from a place of empathy and compassion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. I had a long form, frankly, planned, but I've had vertigo this week, like standing up and falling down |
| 0:11.7 | because I had a massage last week and my head got kind of yanked in a certain way, so my inner ear |
| 0:18.4 | crystals or something like that. But I did promise to do a frankly this week, so here are some reflections on something |
| 0:26.6 | that I've been thinking about that has kind of come to my attention again this week. |
| 0:32.6 | Two weeks ago I was out in San Francisco giving some presentations and I had an Uber ride from the airport to my board |
| 0:40.3 | members' house with a young man from Afghanistan. |
| 0:47.3 | 21, 22, he was a student there. His English was amazing. I was really impressed. He worked really hard. |
| 0:55.4 | He's studying and driving an Uber car to pay the bills. |
| 1:00.7 | And we started to talk about my work and the great simplification. |
| 1:05.2 | He had a lot of interesting questions. |
| 1:07.8 | He was telling me how awful things were in Afghanistan now, and especially since the U.S. military |
| 1:14.9 | and everything left, how women have really lost all their rights, especially, you know, older |
| 1:23.5 | women can no longer drive or do things in public. |
| 1:28.0 | And he was lamenting about that. |
| 1:30.0 | And then we started to talk about homeless people in California. |
| 1:34.8 | And he said something that I'll never forget. |
| 1:37.8 | He's like, if I'm working like I am now, I want to be in America. |
| 1:43.6 | He's like, but if I'm homeless, I will go back or I want to be in America. He's like, but if I'm homeless, I will go back |
| 1:46.5 | or I want to be in Afghanistan. Because despite what's going in Afghanistan, people can grow food |
| 1:53.8 | there and they take care of other people. And here, you're just kind of left out in a park or |
| 2:00.1 | whatever and there's nothing. |
| 2:02.3 | What a profound thing to say. |
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