Thursday, May 9, 2019

Another Video That I Hope Will Go Viral — A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I have shared this video multiple times. In the midst of it all, I believe that it is essential to not lose sight of visions and consciousness of the possibilities and potential of a very different world —one in which life is valued rather than destroyed. A New Story is trying to birth herself. May we listen. May we come together in our hearts, minds, and actions in birthing this New Story with radically different values. As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wisely affirms: "We can be whatever we have the courage to see." May we awaken from our illusions. And may courage, consciousness, kindness, and caring be contagious! — Molly


Published on Apr 17, 2019
 
What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. 
 
Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a forgone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves? 
 
We realized that the biggest obstacle to the kind of transformative change the Green New Deal envisions is overcoming the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed. That’s the message we’ve been hearing from the “serious” center for four months straight: that it’s too big, too ambitious, that our Twitter-addled brains are incapable of it, and that we are destined to just watch walruses fall to their deaths on Netflix until it’s too late. 
 
This film flips the script. It’s about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity in the largest economy on earth came to believe that we were actually worth saving. Because, as Ocasio-Cortez says in the film, our future has not been written yet and “we can be whatever we have the courage to see.” 
 
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