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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.87,0:00:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,June 29, 2016.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.15,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dear fellow citizen:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.78,0:00:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I write to you today,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.39,0:00:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to you who have lost in this era.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.71,0:00:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this moment in our common life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.95,0:00:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the world is full of breaking
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.42,0:00:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spite
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.24,0:00:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fear,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.38,0:00:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I address this letter
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.86,0:00:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.49,0:00:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though we both know
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.09,0:00:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are many of you behind this "you,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.31,0:00:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many of me behind this "I."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.52,0:00:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I write to you because at present,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.48,0:00:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this quaking world we share scares me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.82,0:01:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gather it scares you, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.62,0:01:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of what we fear, I suspect,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.67,0:01:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we fear in common.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.17,0:01:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But much of what we fear\Nseems to be each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.74,0:01:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You fear the world I want to live in,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.53,0:01:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I fear your visions in turn.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.67,0:01:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know that feeling you get\Nwhen you know it's going to storm
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.47,0:01:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before it storms?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you also feel that now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.28,0:01:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fellow citizen?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.44,0:01:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That malaise and worry
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.18,0:01:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some who know
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.52,0:01:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feel reminds them of the 1930s?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.88,0:01:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps you don't,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.49,0:01:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because our fears of each other
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.42,0:01:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not in sync.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.32,0:02:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this round, I sense\Nthat your fears of me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.66,0:02:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world that I have insisted\Nis right for us both,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.86,0:02:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has gathered over a generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.02,0:02:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took time for your fears\Nto trigger my fears,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.87,0:02:19.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not least because at first,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.67,0:02:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never thought I needed to fear you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.88,0:02:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard you
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.74,0:02:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but did not listen,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.73,0:02:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these years when you said\Nthat this amazing new world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.20,0:02:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't amazing for you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.88,0:02:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for many of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.51,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the industrialized world;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.92,0:02:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the open, liquid world I relished,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.76,0:02:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people and goods\Nand technologies flowing freely,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.09,0:02:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going where they pleased, globally,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.02,0:02:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not, for you, an emancipation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.45,0:03:03.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have walked through your towns
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.44,0:03:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, while looking, failed to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.80,0:03:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did notice in Stephenville, Texas,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.79,0:03:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the town square was dominated
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.12,0:03:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by one lawyer's office after another,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.39,0:03:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of all the people\Nrotating in and out of the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.22,0:03:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did notice the barren shops\Nin Wagner, South Dakota,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.92,0:03:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the VFW gathering hall
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.31,0:03:38.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that stood in mockery
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.93,0:03:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a community's dream to endure.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.35,0:03:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did notice
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.32,0:03:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wal-Mart,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.44,0:03:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that far too many people\Nin their 20s and 30s
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.83,0:03:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked a decade or two from death,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.30,0:03:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with patchy, flared-up skin
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.66,0:04:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thinning, stringy hair
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.16,0:04:03.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and browning, ground-down teeth
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.84,0:04:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a lostness in their eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.16,0:04:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did notice that the young people\NI encountered in Paris,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.79,0:04:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Florence, in Barcelona,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.77,0:04:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had degrees but no place to take them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.71,0:04:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living on internships well into their 30s,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.69,0:04:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their lives prevented from launching,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.87,0:04:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of an economy\Nthat creates wealth --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.41,0:04:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just not jobs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.84,0:04:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did notice the news about those parts\Nof London becoming ghost quarters,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.02,0:04:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the global super-rich\Nturn fishy money into empty apartments
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.96,0:04:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and price lifelong residents of a city,\Nyoung couples starting out,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.09,0:04:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of their own home.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.33,0:04:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I heard that the fabric of your life
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.28,0:05:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was tearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.57,0:05:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You used to be able to count on work,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.84,0:05:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now you couldn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.98,0:05:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You used to be able\Nto nourish your children,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.08,0:05:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and guarantee that they would climb
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.05,0:05:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit further in life than you had,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.00,0:05:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now you couldn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.37,0:05:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You used to be made to feel dignity\Nin your work, and now you didn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.80,0:05:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It used to be normal\Nfor people like you to own a home,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.47,0:05:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now it wasn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.29,0:05:37.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot say
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.43,0:05:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.70,0:05:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was distracted
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.57,0:05:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating a future in which\Nwe could live on Mars,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.09,0:05:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as you struggled down here on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.16,0:05:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was distracted
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.46,0:06:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,innovating immortality,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.52,0:06:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even as many of you began to live\Nshorter lives than your parents had.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.30,0:06:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard all of these things,\Nbut I didn't listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.53,0:06:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.57,0:06:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but didn't see.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.16,0:06:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read, didn't understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.37,0:06:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I paid attention
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.39,0:06:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only when you began to vote and shout,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.43,0:06:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when your voting and shouting,\Nwhen the substance of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.52,0:06:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to threaten me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.24,0:06:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I listened only when you moved\Ntoward shattering continental unions
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.25,0:06:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and electing vulgar demagogues.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.70,0:06:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only then did your pain become of interest
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.34,0:06:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.32,0:06:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that feeling hurt
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.30,0:06:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is often prologue to dealing hurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.66,0:07:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder now
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.41,0:07:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you would be less eager to deal it
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.44,0:07:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I had stood with you
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.40,0:07:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you merely felt it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.31,0:07:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ask myself
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.36,0:07:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I didn't stand with you then.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.87,0:07:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One reason is that I became entranced
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.28,0:07:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the gurus of change,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.19,0:07:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became a worshiper of the religion\Nof the new for novelty's sake,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.55,0:07:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of globalization and open borders
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.72,0:07:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kaleidoscopic diversity.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.93,0:07:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once change became my totalizing faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.42,0:07:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could be blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.14,0:07:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could fail to see change's consequences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.87,0:07:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could overlook the importance
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.83,0:07:52.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of roots, traditions,\Nrituals, stability --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.95,0:07:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and belonging.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.50,0:07:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more fundamentalist I became
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.84,0:08:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my worship of change and openness,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.09,0:08:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more I drove you\Ntowards the other polarity,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.07,0:08:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cling,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.63,0:08:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to freeze,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.28,0:08:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to close,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.10,0:08:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to belong.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.14,0:08:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I now see as I didn't before
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.88,0:08:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that not having\Nthe right skin or right organ
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.84,0:08:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the only varietal of disadvantage.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.72,0:08:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.34,0:08:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in having those privileged traits
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.68,0:08:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet feeling history to be\Nmoving away from you;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.08,0:08:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that while the past was hospitable\Nto people like you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.50,0:08:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the future will be more hospitable
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.92,0:08:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to others;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.34,0:08:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the world is growing less familiar,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.82,0:08:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less yours day by day.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.86,0:08:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will not concede for a moment\Nthat old privileges should not dwindle.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.06,0:09:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They cannot dwindle fast enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.78,0:09:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is for you to learn to live\Nin a new century in which
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.31,0:09:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are no bonuses for showing up\Nwith the right skin and right organs.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.28,0:09:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If and when your anger turns to hate,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.73,0:09:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please know that there is no space\Nfor that in our shared home.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.64,0:09:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I will admit, fellow citizen,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.14,0:09:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have discounted the burden\Nof coping with the loss of status.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.16,0:09:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have forgotten
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.96,0:09:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what is socially necessary\Ncan also be personally gruelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.92,0:09:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A similar thing happened
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.22,0:09:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the economy that you and I share.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.19,0:09:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as I cannot and don't wish
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.65,0:09:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to turn back to the clock\Non equality and diversity,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.30,0:09:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet must understand
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.65,0:09:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sense of loss they can inspire,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.03,0:10:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, too, I refuse\Nand could not if I wished
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.97,0:10:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn back the clock on an ever more\Nclosely knit, interdependent world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.14,0:10:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on inventions\Nthat won't stop being invented.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.52,0:10:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet I must understand\Nyour experience of these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.03,0:10:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have for years been telling me\Nthat your experience of these things
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.48,0:10:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not as good as my theories forecast.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.53,0:10:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet before you could finish\Na complaining sentence
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.12,0:10:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the difficulty of living\Nwith erratic hours, volatile pay,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.63,0:10:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vanishing opportunities,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.28,0:10:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the pain of dropping\Nyour children off at 24-hour day care
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.56,0:10:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make your 3am shift,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.32,0:10:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shot back at you -- before you\Ncould finish your sentence --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.26,0:10:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my dogma,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.62,0:10:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how what you are actually\Nexperiencing was flexibility
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.79,0:11:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.59,0:11:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Language is one of the only things\Nthat we truly share,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.55,0:11:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I sometimes used\Nthis joint inheritance
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.05,0:11:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to obfuscate
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.82,0:11:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deflect
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.48,0:11:16.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and justify myself;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.93,0:11:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to re-brand what was good for me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.84,0:11:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as something appearing good for us both,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.32,0:11:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I threw around terms\Nlike "the sharing economy,"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.14,0:11:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "disruption"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.84,0:11:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "global resourcing."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.22,0:11:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see now that what I was really doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.23,0:11:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at times,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.89,0:11:40.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was buying your pain on the cheap,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.89,0:11:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sprucing it up
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.77,0:11:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to sell it back to you
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.24,0:11:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.71,0:11:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have wanted to believe\Nand wanted you to believe
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.68,0:11:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the system that has been good to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.82,0:12:00.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has made my life ever more seamless,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.23,0:12:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is also the best system for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.54,0:12:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have condescended to you
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.83,0:12:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the idea that you are voting\Nagainst your economic interests --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.21,0:12:13.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,voting against your interests,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.62,0:12:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if I know your interests.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.30,0:12:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is just my dogmatic\Neconomism talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.72,0:12:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a weakness
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.52,0:12:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for treating people's economic interests\Nas their only interest,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.93,0:12:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignoring things like belonging and pride
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.48,0:12:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the desire to send a message\Nto those who ignore you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.69,0:12:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.24,0:12:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a scary but not inexplicable moment
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.51,0:12:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of demagoguery, fracture,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.48,0:12:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,xenophobia, resentment and fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.63,0:13:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I worry for us both\Nif we continue down this road,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.36,0:13:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me not listening,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.30,0:13:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feeling unheard,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.18,0:13:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you shouting to get me to listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.78,0:13:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worry when each of us is seduced\Nby visions of the future
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.25,0:13:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have no place for the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.73,0:13:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this goes on,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.66,0:13:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this goes on,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.05,0:13:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there may be blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.29,0:13:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are already hints of this blood
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.92,0:13:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in newspapers every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.97,0:13:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be roundups, raids,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.59,0:13:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deportations, camps, secessions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.49,0:13:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And no, I do not think that I exaggerate.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.24,0:13:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be even talk of war
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.18,0:13:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in places that were certain\Nthey were done with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.48,0:13:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is always the hope of redemption.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.76,0:13:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it will not be a cheap,\Nshallow redemption
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.07,0:14:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that comes through blather\Nabout us all being in it together.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.31,0:14:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will take more.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.40,0:14:11.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will take accepting that we both\Nmade choices to be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.86,0:14:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We create our "others."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.98,0:14:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As parents, as neighbors, as citizens,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.50,0:14:26.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we witness and sometimes ignore each other
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.86,0:14:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into being.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.27,0:14:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were not born vengeful.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.34,0:14:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have some role
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.37,0:14:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in whatever thirst\Nyou now feel for revenge,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.68,0:14:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that thirst now tempts me
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.62,0:14:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to plot ever more elaborate escapes
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.16,0:14:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from our common life,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.11,0:14:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the schools and neighborhoods
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and airports and amusement parks
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.96,0:14:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we used to share.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.66,0:14:56.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We face, then,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.67,0:15:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a problem not of these large,\Nimpersonal forces.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.37,0:15:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We face a problem\Nof your and my relations.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.82,0:15:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We chose ways of relating to each other
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.34,0:15:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that got us here.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.90,0:15:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can choose ways of relating
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.67,0:15:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that get us out.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.36,0:15:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there are things\Nwe might have to let go of,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.42,0:15:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fellow citizen,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.67,0:15:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting with our own cherished\Nversions of reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.04,0:15:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine if you let go of fantasies
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.93,0:15:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a society purged\Nof these or those people.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.56,0:15:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine if I let go of my habit
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.76,0:15:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of saving the world behind your back,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.83,0:15:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of deliberating on the future
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.25,0:15:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of your work,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.26,0:15:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your food,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.53,0:15:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.02,0:15:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in places where you couldn't\Nget past security.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.39,0:16:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can do this only if we first accept
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.35,0:16:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have neglected each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.97,0:16:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is hope to summon
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.93,0:16:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this ominous hour,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.20,0:16:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is this.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.87,0:16:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have, for too long,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.55,0:16:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chased various shimmering dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.82,0:16:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the cost of attention\Nto the foundational dream of each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.10,0:16:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dream of tending to each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.69,0:16:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of unleashing each other's wonders,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.58,0:16:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of moving through history together.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.05,0:16:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could dare to commit\Nto the dream of each other
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.01,0:16:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the thing that matters\Nbefore every neon thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.48,0:16:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us dare.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.47,0:16:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sincerely yours,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.07,0:16:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fellow citizen.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.68,0:17:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)