Utopian Emergence
Channel: Come Together Counseling
Date: 2024-01-01

If you feel despair and hopelessness when faced with the scale of the world’s problems, you’re not alone. Many of us feel this way. These feelings are social and political and don’t come solely from our unique experiences. People in positions of power have created dynamics that cause us to feel this despair and hopelessness.

Many of us are taught that things must be this way, that there is simply no other way of doing things. Yet even a cursory reading of history, or archaeology, or sociology, or geography (I could go on…) would indicate that this is not the case. In order to address these feelings, we must do so through a collective reimagining – a reclaiming of the past, the present, and the future.

In a speech, Ursula le Guin said, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”

Let’s get on and change things then, shall we?

00:00 Video Introduction
01:08 Chapter One: An Introduction to the Course
06:43 Chapter Two: Our Weekly Schedule
10:05 Chapter Three: Closing Thoughts on Utopia

To watch that full Ursula le Guin speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk

Resources for Palestine compiled by @dr.fatima:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sLUKG5HwKtFZZXaPOT3venMDq9PnJ_NM5dFzAhTRt_Q/edit#heading=h.hg4tp0gpsmmu

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Intro/Outro music by CAMPERGRAY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3geOZzWJmUTkxpX8BPIRTI