Politics divides us in two: the most important global issue, at Purple Haze.
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At Purple Haze in Denver, Maceo explains the week’s assignment, “this week’s question, we’re asking people around the world, what is the most important global issue today?” The answer is politics, and what politics is for. “It’s really just trying to divide two people. It’s really many people, different cultures, but it’s trying to divide them into two.” Up top, “it’s a lot of negative energy up top and it just doesn’t make any sense.” The people promoting it are “just really trying to advance without really thinking about the people below them. And that’s why everybody’s just having hardships these days, because they’re trying to find a way to survive.” Then the question under the question: “really what are we surviving from? A piece of paper that doesn’t make sense?”
Asked what he would ask the world, he has three questions ready. “What are your values truly? Who are you trying to grow to be? And what type of feeling are you trying to leave in the world.” His reasoning is that moods travel: “we’re only here for one time. We don’t know what’s going to happen next.” He is not on social media, and says why. “I really don’t be on the socials, but just getting out, you feel me, that’s how we really meet cool people.”
The last minute is Maceo on the project itself. “So the goal is by June 1st, I want to have 10 people. I want to have people from 10 countries, at least doing it with me.” So far: “I think three people in India have submitted, and then we’ve had I think three or four people in Nigeria, I think two people in Kenya,” plus a few in the States. The mechanism: “we put up a $100 bounty every week, and people, we just post about it every week,” in Telegram, and the favorite wins.
Language is unfiltered. The transcript below is from the original audio.
