Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Today Danielle Moodie and I talked about something a lot of us are feeling: the pressure of living in a time of deep uncertainty and danger. We got into how this feeling, especially as things ramp up and many crises intertwine and worsen, we have to look in the mirror, decide who we are and what we believe and want, and start preparing our revolutionary selves for the fall of fascistic regimes and the possibility of a better future. I hope this hits home with people. I certainly needed it today.

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Today’s episode of The Check-In was exactly the kind of conversation I wanted to have when Danielle Moodie and I started this project. We got into leaving behind the feeling of inevitability that fascists want us to feel and rediscovering agency, or the ability to make change and create the world we actually want and actually deserve.

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Checking in from the road for this week’s episode of The Check-In. Danielle Moodie and I discuss the growing tension within the United States, but also the feeling of revolutionary energy taking over. With all this madness and the self-destruction of fascism, it’s time to look ourselves in the mirror and decide to live better, all while rejecting the awful exploitation of the past that got us nowhere anyway.

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Man alive, Tuesday was a mess. I wanted to record something going over the farce of a ceasefire - surprise, surprise, it was a disguised surrender for the U.S. - and what to expect now. For all the corporate coverage, we’re not hearing about the deeper politics of what is occurring with the U.S./Israel/Iran War and where all of this is heading. So, I pu…

Very grateful, as always, for this conversation with Danielle Moodie following the madness of the last couple of days. We discussed Trump holding the world hostage, the “ceasefire,” which was a surrender and disguise and likely won’t hold, and, perhaps more importantly, a conversation about what we can all do to get ready for the next stage of imperial collapse.

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Things within the United States and outside, where a mindless, disastrous war continues, continue to spiral, so I’m very glad to have these Wednesday conversations with Danielle Moodie. In this episode of The Check-In, we talk about the moment where white supremacist and capitalist privilege finally meets reality. Trump is stuck in an awful position and there’s no easy way out. No bankruptcy to declare. No rich father to bail him out. Only a declining empire and a complete and utter failure that will doubtlessly change things going forward. It was a great talk and I hope it helps you.

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Thank you Lev Parnas, Elaine Cimino, Morgan Guyton, LeftieProf, CO, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali! Join me for my next live video in the app.

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Man alive. I needed this conversation with Danielle Moodie on the latest episode of The Check-In. Today we wrestled with the very real possibility that the war with Iran has brought us to a real fuck-around-and-find-out moment that could be the reckoning the American Empire was always going to reach. We discuss how white supremacy and American Exceptionalism have always been self-destructive ideologies that would bring us to ruin and how Trump and the fascists are the full realization of that fact which has haunted us since our founding.

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Another episode of The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and I feel like we’re really getting down to the thing about living at the end of empire. This conversation got into the need for family (of choice) and community as we face the oncoming storm that is the collapse of the United States of America, including the political and economic consequences. We get into the colonization of our minds and our culture, the need to educate ourselves in decolonization philosophy and the actual history of our lives. I’m grateful for Danielle and for all the people tuning into these conversations.

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Happy Sunday, everyone. I had an itch to do a reader mailbag today and so I tried something new. Instead of writing out my answers I recorded this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State to see how it felt verbally processing. I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently and this batch gets into so much.

We start by going over the difference between w…