Audio From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Things within the United States and outside, where a mindless, disastrous war continues, continue to spiral, so I’m very glad to have these Wednesday conversations with Danielle Moodie. In this episode of The Check-In, we talk about the moment where white supremacist and capitalist privilege finally meets reality. Trump is stuck in an awful position and there’s no easy way out. No bankruptcy to declare. No rich father to bail him out. Only a declining empire and a complete and utter failure that will doubtlessly change things going forward. It was a great talk and I hope it helps you.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your help. If this work has resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

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Man alive. I needed this conversation with Danielle Moodie on the latest episode of The Check-In. Today we wrestled with the very real possibility that the war with Iran has brought us to a real fuck-around-and-find-out moment that could be the reckoning the American Empire was always going to reach. We discuss how white supremacy and American Exceptionalism have always been self-destructive ideologies that would bring us to ruin and how Trump and the fascists are the full realization of that fact which has haunted us since our founding.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you and helped you, please become a paid subscriber to keep this project going This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Another episode of The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and I feel like we’re really getting down to the thing about living at the end of empire. This conversation got into the need for family (of choice) and community as we face the oncoming storm that is the collapse of the United States of America, including the political and economic consequences. We get into the colonization of our minds and our culture, the need to educate ourselves in decolonization philosophy and the actual history of our lives. I’m grateful for Danielle and for all the people tuning into these conversations.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work has resonated with you or helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.comHappy Sunday, everyone. I had an itch to do a reader mailbag today and so I tried something new. Instead of writing out my answers I recorded this episode of Audio From A Collapsing State to see how it felt verbally processing. I’ve been getting a lot of questions recently and this batch gets into so much. We start by going over the difference between w…

Was happy, as always, to join THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali this afternoon to discuss the absolute debacle in the Middle East and here. We discussed how all this self-destruction is being pushed by some of the most privileged and competent men imaginable, which all but ensures failure and tragedy. Later, we get into the fact that Donald Trump’s base is leaving him but stress that Democrats can’t just count on their votes as the Far Right, which is just waiting for Trump to either die or go away, will be there to radicalize them to even more Neo-Nazi positions.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work resonates with you or has helped you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Well, I needed this talk. My friend Danielle Moodie and I got together for another episode of The Check-In to discuss our own navigation of the ongoing disaster of a war in the Middle-East, including the tragedy of watching people being murdered by this regime, the type of environmental damage being done, and, also, the need to start rooting against the empire as we must finally break out of this illusion that has held Americans captive for centuries now. It seems counterintuitive, but the absolute mess that Trump has created also lends itself to opportunities, including an opening to possibly defeat fascism and move beyond this utterly depraved capitalist exploitation.Thanks, as always, to the people who keep showing up every Wednesday to watch and for all the support. If you know someone, a friend, a family member, a coworker, who might benefit from this conversation, please forward this along.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If this work helps you or resonates with you, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

As I said at the end of today’s episode of The Check-In, I’ve been looking forward to this conversation with Danielle Moodie since the war started on Saturday. We discussed the total insanity of this war, the cruelty and tragedy, as well as how it represents, we hope, the moment where the veneer of civility falls totally and people can start to see we have to change and move away from this madness. I hope it helps with you processing all of this bullshit.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your help. If this work has meant something to you, if it has helped, if it has resonated with you, please become a paid subscriber today This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

It’s been awhile since the last Bourbon Talk Q&A Livestream, but I figured circumstances required it. I went live last night with a bottle of bourbon and questions from my subscribers. We talked about the origins of the Iran War, why it is quickly becoming a regional war that is completely out of control, and how it is a symptom of the larger unraveling I’ve been talking about for years. It’s good to do things like this and share some space with one another, so thank you for the questions, for the kindness, and for the support.I’ll do another one of these sometime soon and I’m looking forward to it. I believe we will come out of this crisis better, but it’s going to take so much to get there. Relying on one another and building communities is the only way to do it.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your help. If my work has resonated with you or helped you make sense of this chaotic time, please become a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe

Well. Here we are.I went live awhile ago to talk about the fascist war we now find ourselves in, the motivations behind it, the danger now that the elite don’t even feel a need to explain their violence anymore, and, perhaps more importantly, how a window is possibly opening in which we, the people, can take power back from the authoritarians.I’ll be going live tomorrow (Sunday March 1st) at 8pm eastern with a Bourbon Talk Q&A. If you have questions, please reply to this article and I’ll get to as many as I can. In the meantime, here is the article I published last week preparing for these strikes and this war.Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. If my work has helped you or resonated with you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com/subscribe