Maceo's Take on the Biggest Problem Today
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0:00A: What do you think is the biggest global crisis today?
0:03B: It’s recording? I think so. Is the time in the top left corner? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that’s how you know. Um, what is the biggest global crisis today? Yeah, I think, I think people aren’t talking enough and listening to each other. I feel like we’re talking at each other, but we’re not really like talking about things. Something that he mentioned which I thought was really important is just like, um, like unresolved feelings build resentment. And I feel like the world we’re in today is a world full of people who resent each other and who are mad at each other about a lot of stuff. And you might be mad at me about stuff I didn’t even do, stuff my parents did, you know, imagine, my grandparents did. But then it’s like, there’s still a lot of grief and trauma, you know, that people have had to deal with, with no one to blame or hold accountable. And I feel like stuff like that is the kind of stuff we don’t talk enough about. But I feel like at scale, that’s like what you’re talking about when you’re talking about war. War is also driven by greed, sure, but like --
0:56A: There’s a lot of things driven by war.
0:58B: Yeah, yeah.
0:59A: There’s everything. But yeah, greed is definitely one of them.
1:01B: But ask me a follow-up question now. Now you’re practicing for your career as a woman on the street.
1:07A: So you think everybody’s talking at each other, not with each other. So what’s one thing that we can do to change that or practice that in our everyday lives? make us more aware?
1:21B: Um, I think disagreeing more with each other without like wanting to be right.
1:27A: Yeah, discussing, you know?
1:30B: Yeah, like, okay, that’s how you see it, like, why you see it like that, you know? It might not make any kind of sense to you, right? But I think just being able to, to listen to each other is what it comes down to at the end of the day. I think beyond that, participate in this, you know, like right now we’ve had people submit from India, from Nigeria, from Kenya. And then I’ve been here in Denver. And I think, you know, the more people we can get around the world doing this kind of thing, you know, when something big happens in the world, all of a sudden we can ask each other what we think about it. And I think right now, especially as Americans, a lot of us are just kind of here with our neighbors, knowing whatever the news tells us. And I think, you know, information’s out to control us. And that’s not what it is. It’s there to inform us so we can, you know, make choices. That’s awesome.
