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And it's really just shocking to realize that people can't any longer tell when someone is good. I
mean, they just lost that ability. And we used to have it, you used to just know, oh, that's a good
person there. And now, you know, you just, uh-.
-Anyway, so this is you know, this is an area where we need to do some soul searching,
homework, whatever it takes to regain that ability to -We used to say grok somebody, you have
to be able to grok somebody and know that this person is really the medicine that your
community, your world needs right now in order to stay worth living in. You know, we're losing
the planet because we've forgotten how to tell when somebody is trying to save it. We just can't
tell.
This is a tragedy and it's a human tragedy and we're catching it. You know, we're really
inheriting what happened. And also back to Noam, listening to him and thinking how, all that
early stuff about this country didn't even apply to people of color, and that is also what you're
seeing in the way, war is made on them. You know, the people who are making the war still
believe that the people of color in the world don't really count as people, and so you can just do
whatever you want. And that's the deep, deep racism. Which coming back to your earlier
question, I would say, you know, some of the people now, some of the youth, especially, are
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