Alright, it's time to get to the bottom of why Boa Hancock is sick. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster, I'm Shinobi. One Piece episodes 417 and 418 today. Luffy has finally found out about Ace and the scheduled execution and all that's gonna go down with the Whitebeard Pirates if the government does move forward with things. Now, it's kind of a race against the clock because Luffy is gonna try to get to Impel down to rescue Ace, but there's only one way he can do that and that's on a Navy ship. We're gonna hop right into it. If you're new to the channel, drop us up and hit that big boy bell. And let's get started. Bro's just been waiting these all these days. Because now he said the Navy has like the the tools necessary to get through the calm bell. Either ships didn't used to be powerful enough or they didn't know how to deal with the Sea Kings, I think. It has to be a deeper meaning than just like sickness because it seemed like she knew it was coming, but it was like something else. I left out like three episodes ago. Boa threw her out of a window and now we're just vibing. How is she so fine even on her death bed? Her heart. The snake. Goddamn, she sounds like she's in a lot of pain. It was since he said that, like triggered something. It's about Luffy leaving. Oh, she's gotta figure it out. Does she know what's going on? It's a specific virus. What? She's gonna say unless. Oh, what? Wouldn't she know about it then if the former Empress died from it? What? I caught it, but left this punch tree. Does she need to leave? It has something to do with Luffy. I'm so confused. How lucky he is. Does he have like a direct title?   Oh my gosh. She knows. I guess because yeah, he approached her about about coming to aid the government. What, endangering her like that? No, I think he just wants help getting there. I don't think he means she has to go. He's just asking. He's not making her. This is why we hate men. I mean, it seems like she was gonna help the warlords anyways. Whoa, she's like, is she in love with him? Is that what's going on? Like, she's so stressed about him leaving. Before the execution. Why are you talking about like it's gonna happen Luffy? Dude, she is in love with Luffy. Oh, Dios mio, no shot. Luffy got to be the luckiest man alive. Love is always a hurricane and he has absolutely no idea what's going on. Oh my gosh, the way she looks at him, no shot. Oh my gosh, I made her feel better. Leads you to your death. That's love. Oh, the two other imbraces died because of love? Damn, imbraces love like crazy.  Oh, that's nuts, man. That adds such a cool dynamic. Oh, true. Wait, she could play it off like she's going to help. Oh my gosh. Five head.  Damn. She's in love with him, man. Is she gonna free his crew then? Is she gonna say take Luffy to Impel down? No, because she wouldn't want to be without him. She wouldn't want to be separated from him. She's gonna have to go to Impel down too. Is she just gonna follow him everywhere now? Oh, they're going, man. No time to waste. Dude, every woman on this island is obsessed with Luffy and now Boa Hancock. Can you imagine if Sanji found out that the most beautiful woman in the world is in love with Luffy? He would probably kill himself. I'll have Sanji cook for you and cook he will. Don't, don't include that part, Luffy. Oh, reindeer named Chopper. He's so proud of his crew. It's so cute. Nami and Robin would love this place.  They're, they're, they're, they're in the same boat.  They love them, but like, they're so over them sometimes. No! Ah! Not a little baby seal! Boa! Oh, she's too fine. I'll let it slide. I'll let it slide. God, damn. It feels so warm. I am responding to the same woman. There's her lover. This is the funniest dynamic ever, man. This insanely powerful warlord is in love with Luffy. Don't look at his eyes. Jesus. Dude, ask her to join the crew. Call me Hancock. Imagine a warlord joining the crew, though, bro. They would be stacked. Frankie, Brooke, Boa, Hancock, Robin. Like, they'd be unbeatable, man. She might have to at this point. She'll die if she's not with them. Maybe a thousand years ago, Neon. Well, honestly, she'll probably lose the warlord title once the government finds out she helped Luffy. If they do find out. He's instilled these habits in them. We kind of got new allies to an extent. The Amazonians. She saw his true spirit more than anyone. I am Boa, too, but a lot of them didn't get to see who Luffy really is. Well, actually, he wears his heart on his sleeve. She's gonna miss him. Is every woman in love with Luffy? My God! No, she just cares about him. Yeah, how are they gonna get him on to the Navy ship? They had to have figured out some plan. I would say more than sworn enemy. Yeah, it's even more than that. Oh, Neon came up with the plan. There are so many intrusive thoughts looking at the very tall Amazonian. They'll keep repressed. Thank God we're leaving. The temptation is gone. It's such a W in my book. I'll miss that place. What a beautiful, beautiful place. Bro's just slowly been eating that sea king. I can't. Alright, what's the plan here? Oh yeah, the condition. Oh, she's asking to stop at Impel down. Hmm. Pirates aren't allowed in Impel down? Oh, damn. Is Luffy inside the snake? Yeah! You cannot be serious. Where's Luffy? Is he in her coat? Nah, he in the snake, bro. The snake just consumed him. Oh, my gosh. She's blushing. Oh, no, it's Luffy's stomach. What is the stomach growling up to with manners? You can't repress that. Oh, no, he is under her coat. He ate so much, Luffy. I will ask for food later. Just hands it down. Can you climb up higher? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That was going to say he's going to ask to put them back. Their heart's just beating out of their chest. Dog! My God, he is so clueless. You're here to go find those? Stop talking to each other! Damn! That was a few hours ago? That was the same day? Stretch my body with your hands? Brother! Brother! Why would you give him that opportunity? Maybe she knows that he... She's bluffing because she'll know he'll say no. And they're all just back. Kok-sama! I'm a child! They weren't even let in on any of the information. This is crazy. What a mission, man. Who would have thought it would have ended up like this? Maybe headquarters? Singoku. He's going to be like, oh, that's good news. Surely she'll help you, Singoku. Six of the seven. Okay, Mihawk will be here. So what's going on with Kuma? Dofomingo. Oh, Gekko Mori is actually coming? Blackbeard, Boa. It's the seventh. He was put in prison. He cool off! It's the originally opposing battle. Wait, the last warlord's in jail? He's ready to be revoked! Why is he a warlord if he's in jail? Jinbei. Yeah, that was the one they name-chopped in Arlong. What is this guy's shoulders? Kizuru captured 500 people? Is there no room? Oh, dude, this is intense. Where's Garp? He's at Inbell Down? Oh, shoot.  Wait, where's Whitebeard now? How many members does Whitebeard have? Main ship Moby Dick. It sank? Wait, 23 shims went down? Damn, jiggachat, holy... So that means Shanks is getting involved, right? New world? Jeez. Dude, they took down 27 shims already. I want to see how big Whitebeard's fleet actually is. Val may break out in Inbell Down. Loopy might have impeccable timing at Inbell Down. Is so Garp's there? What is he doing? Oh, he's going to see Ace. Oh, that is so sad. This is grandson, man. God, he looks rough. Oh my god, this is getting crazy. As soon as they got to sing Goku and all them talking, it just made this whole war and battle like 20 times more real to me. I know it's going down, but Whitebeard has really made a move. Alright, episode 418, let's go. Do we finally get to see what happened to Kuma after, though? Or where everybody else went? God, he's sitting chopper in that form, too. I guess it would slowly run out as... Wait, where are they that he can just be out chilling like this? She sounds so concerned about him. Her love. Wait, this section looks so nice. Does she have her own private quarters? I guess that would make sense. Yeah, she's a warlord. Dog! She's trying to figure out how to make him feel better. She is so in love. Oh my god! Oh, shot! What is happening? He has like one, two. No, I can't! Wait, she's adorable. Oh my god. Meanwhile. Not me! We finally see what happened! What is this wizard looking dude? What is this place? Wait, this looks so cozy. This kind of looks like long ring, long land. And there's the paw print. Okay, so were they all sent to separate places? She's like, oh, where is this? I was very nice of him to take her in. He seems relatively okay. He's got some nice slippers. Oh, he looks so scared. I mean, she would obviously be scared. She's got sent to a random place. Probably doesn't remember much about what happened. She's like, they'll never find their way around without me.  Now she's going to start to remember. The duality of the places they were sent to. Luffy sent to god dang Amazon Lily and she just sent to this random wizard's house. What is that thing? Like the giant beaker. I don't think it's a beaker. It's probably a giant test tube. I don't know. Oh, setting down her weapon. Aw, just worried about them. Luffy the sky to get here. He's very skittish. I mean, she did attack him. He could explain maybe where she is. What island possibly. He's like, yeah, this is the impel down security base. What is that? Is that a fridge? To say the least. Aw. He's trying to cheer her up. This guy's so nice! It's always these people that you find out later. They've murdered like 5,000 children. Oh, wait, what? Wait, it's like a magical rope. This guy is really nice. There's a storm outside. This place looks so cute. So quaint. Is that a vase? Here, giant vase just rolling. Oh, balloon? That's not a balloon. Ben Franklin? Well, we're definitely in the grand line. This is some crazy weather. At least she didn't get shot back to East Blue. It was possible, I think.  Not just a rain. Like one that could destroy the house? Somebody else's vase. It seems like this happens around here often. Oh my! Oh, that's so horny, bro. Why is it being a wheel so absurd? What the? Did he just make a rain cloud? What kind of place is this? What the? Oh, that's the dryer. What kind of technology is this, man? I'm so confused. And this is literally just one of their destinations. And I'm so absurdly confused already. Does he have like a defensive orb? What? Oh yeah, no, he's totally used to this kind of weather. My goodness. This must happen here often.  Ah, emergency rope. Wait, it's so apt that she came somewhere where the weather is absolutely absurd. That's like her whole thing. Whoa, she added the rope to claim attack. She said I'll adjust the weather myself. Is it too strong to... Oh shoot. Hey, what is she doing? Is she gonna ride the sky? She's fighting Mother Nature itself. Oh my God, wait, she actually dispelled it.  Dude, that's like a crazy upgrade if he lets her keep the rope. Why is that cloud so low to the ground? Or is this place just really high up? There he is! It's so bright now. Whoa. This reminds me of Skypia. It is the Sky Island! Weatheria? What? She's in the sky? Wait, it's so apt. She got sent somewhere where they do weather research. Oh my gosh. I don't know how. Oh my God, that's only the intercut? God damn. That's only one person. Where did everybody else go? I went to her island on the Grand Line. Is it gonna be Chopper? The crew has never been this split up before. This is nuts. Oh, what is that?  He's like, I got quite a wh- Oh no, they said that- Whoa. Is that a pop ring? I don't know. Whoever got sent here is unlucky as hell though. This place looks miserable. That dude has antlers. Like Chopper. Keep going. What kind of dog is this? Harimo. It's gonna be Chopper. Oh my gosh. He's still in his form. Rocket Dog! Oh, it's Frankie! Oh my gosh. Frankie got sent here, bro. No!  Oh my god, free Frankie toes? Oh, Lee. He's chilling. Dude, they are all so spread out. This is so sad. I don't like the crew being this far apart. Nami's literally in the god dang sky. He just realized it's cold. He says Frankie when he sneezes, I can't man. Have you been robbed? No, he just dresses like this, sir. It wouldn't be fitting for a pervert.  Right. Left hands out, Frankie. Oh my god, they joined in. And the dog. Dude, the dog looks like something Frankie would have built, man. Wait, these guys seem so chill. This is cool. Is he not considering how he got here or what happened or, you know, anything? And now they've been indoctrinated into the Frankie culture. They didn't even question it. Yeah, where is it? It's said somewhere in the grand line. Mechanical Island, land of Baltimore, birthplace of the genius degenerate. He's just freezing. The genius. Who is the genius? Oh, there actually is a hospital. So how much civilization is here? Frankie got sent to Baltimore, dude. I mean, it could be worse, I guess. Oh, my great googly moogly.  Operation in progress. Operating on Frankie. What should we do? We have no cola. No. They're going to hurt my boy. What is happening in this show anymore, man? This is so chaotic. Oh, they're done. They better not touch his brain. Frankie, I wonder if they changed his power source from cola. What did they do to him? What did they do? Wait, is he in a suit? What? They combed his hair. What is happening? They used tea. I forgot. It does change him depending on what you put in because that happened in any slobby whenever they were fighting a chapapa. He's so polite. Super. These are such differing locations for Nami and Luffy and now Frankie. I'm just dying to see where, like, especially Sanji went. He misses old Frankie. Boya. Boya. Oh, my gosh. Just put a gentleman on Mechanical Island. I don't know, man. I don't even know what show I'm watching. This is just madness. Oh, my. What is this? Egg fondue? It's the birthplace of the genius. Oh. Vigapunk. He has to be the genius. Oh, my gosh. Dude, what is happening anymore? It's just the rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. Frankie ended up on the island of the birthplace of Dr. Vigapunk. One that they said is, like, 500 years ahead of everybody else in terms of technology. He's the one that created Bartholomew Kuma. Oh, my gosh. This is madness. Madness!  I swear, dude. I'm on episode 418. I think at the time of recording this, like, one piece is in, like, the 1050s, 60s, 70s. I don't know. I'm not even halfway there, and I already, like, rue the day that I catch up because the day I'm not able to consume any more of this is just gonna be so devastating. And like I said, I'm not even halfway there yet, man. But, okay, finally we got to checking on some of the straw hats. So we still have Sanji, Chopper, Zoro, and Robin to see where they are. And the first two already, like, blew my mind. The bar is high, man. Guys, that's been it for episodes 417, 418 of our One Piece Watchthrough.  Don't miss any of this, and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.


So as I said, so many times by now, sometimes you just don't have the muse, you just don't have anything funny or entertaining or inspirational or educational to talk about. But look at what I'm doing, it's like marketing-ception, an inception of an inception, like I'm talking to you about not having anything to talk about. So what's my point here? I am currently taking up your space and time. If you're watching this video right now, you're paying attention to who? To me! Ha ha ha! Robbie! So, essentially I don't have anything to say, but I'm still able to produce something, because again, I talk about it so much in my videos. It's not about the inspiration, it's not about having the best idea right now for a video. Even if you don't have what to talk about, it's better to be seen. Are some people not going to like it? Yeah, of course. Would some people prefer the best content you have and to hear you in your amazingness? Yeah, but that doesn't mean you should not show yourself, because it's all a game of attention, marketing, sales. How much attention can I get? The more attention you get, the more influence you'll have. So my goal is to get you to think about me, to see me, to hear me, to consider my proposal of working with me, to think about the book which I'm writing as much as possible and do it with as many people as possible. That's the way you want to go about it. So this actually made me think of another idea, which is that the fact that I don't have anything specific to talk about, anything extraordinary or any idea, on one hand, I'd rather have a really, really good idea of what to talk about right now, but on the other hand, I guess I kind of feel like you right now, sorry to say, but it's true.  I have so many students that I tell them clients would be a better word that tell me, hey, I didn't make a video, I didn't have anything to talk about. That's the biggest issue is I want to get attention, I get it, I get it, I get it, that attention equals influence, I get it, the more influence I get, the more success I'll have, more money, better relation, everything is better when you have influence. But I don't know what to do to get the attention, so the thing is to get the attention, you just need to get attention. So even if you don't have anything specific to talk about right now, I told you in the previous video, work on your creativeness, hone your craft, develop your craft so that you'll have things to talk about, but that doesn't mean wait, it means do it while you get attention.  Like in my integrity, I love this audience, I love my audience, I cherish my audience, so I'll never allow myself to kind of post anything that I would look at and would be like, okay, I just wasted their time. So if I do a video and I get a feeling like I just wasted your time, I won't upload it, so that's part of my criteria, my standards. But if I'm doing a video like this, which yeah, it's a bit of a rant, it's a bit unclear, unfocused, off the cuff, but I feel like hey, I'm delivering value, I'm actually helping you realize things while you're listening, then I want to use this to get attention. Again, is it the best I can offer? No, but is it better than nothing? Yeah, of course. Would it be better for me to have a workout that was eh, or just not workout at all? Is it better to eat okay food or should I just, you know, if it's not the best food, I'll just eat the worst food? Is it better to have a bad meditation that lasts only a couple of minutes? Or should I just not meditate at all? It's the principle of one is greater than zero, it's always better to do something than doing nothing as long as that action isn't a loss, meaning as long as I'm not doing anything that would hurt me, like making a video where I say something that I don't believe in or making a video that makes me feel bad about what I just posted, I'm always in a net gain, so it might be a small net gain, it might be a large net gain, so this video is basically for all you guys who want to f***ing start already. Come on, start anything, you know, whatever it is you think of starting or maybe you told me in the comments or in the private message that you're going to start, dude just f***ing start, like just do something every day, you know, don't don't, you know, I had one of my good friends, his name is Aviad and he lately hasn't been eating a lot of fruits and vegetables and I pummeled into him because I'm like dude it's so important, you have to eat blah blah blah, so I asked him why are we not eating fruits and vegetables and I found out that he doesn't have any fruits and vegetables in his house right now, so I asked him, okay so uh you know, when are you going to get, when are you going to go and buy fruits and vegetables and he told me oh no no I'm I'm actually going to start doing fruit shakes soon, so I told him look fruit shakes are a bonus, they take a lot of effort, they're not easy to make, you know it takes a couple of minutes, you need to wash it, you need to have the ingredients, you know the shake could go bad, it's an added habit, it's something you add on top of good habits, you don't use that as your only option, so start eating fruits like from tomorrow morning, get some bananas, get some apples, put them on the table and once you're in the habit of eating fruits every day now you can start doing shakes as well, once you have the fundamentals down the root level go for the next level, which is the foundations, okay, hope this makes sense, all these concepts tie together, remember uh use habits, daily habits, because you do a daily habit but you can't do the daily habit because you don't have the inspiration and then I say look do it even if you don't have the inspiration and also the whole idea of inspiration that relates to the three levels of success video, which talks about root fundamentals and nuance levels, focus on the root, you don't need inspiration for root, you don't need inspiration to lift up weights, you don't need inspiration to make a fucking video you need inspiration for the nuance and for the fundamental levels where you kind of want to improve what you have makes sense, I hope so, let me know if it does, let me know if this video helped you, I have a lot of coaching calls coming up this week so expect some really really good content because like I said I always get the best content after coaching calls and either way talk to me dudes and do debts, send me a message, let me know how you're doing, chat me, challenge me, ask me to coach you maybe I'll give you a free coaching call, like, subscribe, I want you to interact with me makes me happy


Just because you have written this book, it does not mean that you can or will find it any easier to read your words out loud. You write this poem in preparation for the future for when you will find yourself encountering an audience. Perhaps the people inside your book are sitting in this audience. Perhaps their presence will make you think twice about any attempt at reclaiming your voice. You place this poem on page 62, not quite the center, but a number you know you will never forget. You will always know where to go should you find yourself thinking that you are better off being silent. You're born on this date and as such you believe that each time you read the poem on this page, you are reborn in that instance to begin again. You tell your story. It is a familiar story. This is your story. You share it in the hopes of it becoming our story. This is our story about how we as human beings treat one another. It is an acutely human story. Your friend tells you that as a child or a teenager or even as a young man, he grew up thinking he had no race. That such a concept was beyond his comprehension. Your friend tells you this as a way of saying things are different for him now. In the same conversation you tell your friend that even as a child and a teenager and even now in this moment, you were always made aware of who you are. It begins with the color of your skin. You tell your friend this as a way of saying things have always been this way, but you as a person are different now. That moment when you, the reader of this book, will question the reason for why it was written when you are questioning the author's intent, the obsessive nature of recounting each detail. That moment when you accept the story as truth, when you are implicated for acknowledging this truth, they are your colleagues, they are your friends, they are your teachers. That moment when you choose to reject the truth, when the you in this moment is determined by you. You are writing this book for the simple fact that someone, somebody, some group of people did something to you. You write it as a way of saying you will not put up with this, not ever again. You will not hold, you will not carry the weight of their actions. You will not accept their transference of shame. You accept it. You accept the reality of this as truth that history is often written from the perspective of the perpetrator or that silence is said from the voice of the voiceless. You are writing this book for these simple truths. You have a voice.  You have a history. This is your history. These things, they are just things. They are told all, they are, I'm sorry, these things, they are just things.  These things, these moments, they are just things in the greater scheme of things. So what if you are consistently called by your last name? It is easier to pronounce. It is just a small thing. These things, they accumulate, they stick, they cling to your clothing, your skin. They alter your thinking. They affect your seeing, your way of being. You wake up one day. You look in the mirror. You have grown a thick skin. And the you in the mirror is no longer you.  You do not care for the name, not in the slightest. It is easy to spell. It is easy to say. You will have plenty of time to regret your choices. It is just the thing you tell yourself. You carry these things. They are placed on you. They are thrown at you.  You are carrying these things. You anticipate a time when someone is compelled to correct your grammar. Again, it happens. And you collapse under the weight. You are buried beneath a lifetime of these things. I almost deleted this piece because someone I quoted on Facebook wrote to me and kind of called me out and said, Did you really write about me and can you explain yourself? And I almost followed suit and deleted it.  This isn't about him. So you are minding your own business, minding the business of Facebook. When you come across a writer crowdsourcing, what appears to be a simple enough question. Hi, Facebook friends. Does anybody know any good writing about anger and outrage? Already got Spinoza, thanks. Spinoza and Kendrick Lamar. I'm mad, but I ain't stressed. Thanks, you crazy lovable motherfuckers. You feel your fingers wanting to respond. You don't want to be seen as that guy. Yes, that guy. You hear yourself saying what the, did he really just say ask? Maybe it's you. Maybe you have become overly sensitive in your old age. Maybe you need a trigger warning. The logical you insist that you acknowledge the innocuous nature of this posting. When did his question about writing and anger and outrage fill you and your words with the same anger and outrage? It is the same. It is, it is, it is the same. It is because, is it the same? Is it because you are reminded of your friend, Wanda, who left this life not too long ago? You missed her voice the time over dinner when she said those motherfuckers. You will always remember the rage in that voice. Is it because writing for you is a matter of rage? You think to yourself, this is so obvious. This is not meant to be logical in the least. It is because, is it because you were afraid of looking and then you looked and now you cannot stop looking. You are triggered by a question written in a hurry. It is, it is perhaps not meant for you. It is a question asked by a white dude to other white dudes in a matter of, it is a matter of perspective. Ask, matter of perspective. His and yours, it is a matter, it is, it matters, it matters. He is asking a question as a matter of intellect. You are answering it as an instance, in this instance as a matter of necessity. Is it because you are dying to ask what are you really asking? He pulls the trigger not once but five times. Is it because you live in a world where an unarmed black man running the other way is seen as dangerous and always endangered? Is it because of the way the question is written? He is trying to be poetic. Is he trying to be funny? You crazy, lovable motherfuckers. Clearly, this must be striking a nerve. Did it offend your sensibilities? You tell yourself, if you can't, can just stop looking. If you can close your eyes, maybe just maybe you will hear your friend whispering, those motherfuckers.  She says, I've been thinking about you, hoping you're well if you'd ever like to meet for lunch or tea or anything. I'm here, such a simple note and yet you find yourself short of breath. You think that someone sees you after all this time. You think your voice is finding its way back. You hesitate to respond. You wait a day, you send her a note that says, thank you for this note. It means a lot to me. I would love to have tea.   This is a poem about someone who gifted me something amazing.   The numbers are unknown and knowing is the art. You decide to make art to honor her obsession. You install an artwork with an unknown quantity of cranes. You are asked to articulate the Asian-ness of the cranes. It is a Japanese tradition.  You object to the simple framing of your ethnicity. You say you're exploring obsession as art and still you are asked to explain your Asian-ness as art. You say you're exploring this obsession as art.    Each sorted detail is lovingly saved, labeled in files of small, medium, large, extra large. You take it, you keep it, you store it in your basement next to a stack of old nature calendars.  You read about a famous artist who killed 9,000 butterflies. He titles the piece in and out of love. He calls it art.  You think to yourself, this one's for you, Joe.  You tend to react through the act of making, you know this about yourself.   And this is about my fourth grade encounter with language.  That time in the fourth grade you use the wrong word. Your teacher says she has a headache. You as a fourth grader are amassing a vocabulary. You want to show off your newest word. Like a rare red cat's eye in a bag full of marbles, you say it's a tumor. You catch your teacher off guard. You can tell from her reaction she is both hurt and angry. She says that's a rude thing to say. You can sense in that moment as a fourth grader, she did not say this as a teacher. There was no teaching in her voice, even with your hand raised. She did not call on you for the remainder of the lesson that day. Her comments stay with you throughout the day. You arrive home that afternoon. You're still wondering what happened.  You panic.  You write your teacher a letter in cursive. The letter reads, dear Mrs. Brooks, I'm sorry for saying you have a tumor. I meant to say you have a migraine. And I'm going to end with a poem. And I'm going to preface this by saying that sometimes poets say the damnedest things. Some dude not too long ago got up in front of an audience and read the autopsy of Michael Brown as a poem.  So I need it to respond to that. So this is about ownership. That even in his death, a black man is at risk. That his body will be appropriate in the name of your avant-garde art, experimental poetics, conceptual poetry, call it what you will. It has always been about ownership. The black body, the white body, the owner and the owned. This is where the poetry ends because I will not engage you as a poet.  I want you to know that if I see you walking down the street, I will exercise my right of ownership. I will claim that space of three by three land, call it homesteading, call it squatter's rights. I will claim that minor plot of land in the middle of a street, on the sidewalk in a cafe. I will claim it as my own so that I can do what comes next. I will kick you in the gonads.    Your body will topple to the ground.  As if you didn't know. And I will be hovering over your body. I will read these words in your annoying poet voice. I will move in that same rhythmic pattern that you must have practiced in the mirror for hours and hours. Later, when they come to arrest me in the comfort of my own home, I will say that I did it as a poetic gesture of the avant-garde. As a poem, the reader is invited into the metaphor. Thank you.


The Communist for the FBI Starring Dana Andrews in an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI Many of the incidents in the story you're about to hear are based on the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevetik who for nine fantastic years Live as a communist for the FBI Here is our star Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik Externally you look the same nine years later a little more settled-looking a little more tolerant of things a little tired But that's all they think Inside are the ruins Inside is the wreckage of loneliness and compromise and disappointment and fear That's the price you pay for being for nine years a communist for the FBI like me In a moment listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik under cover man Here is Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik under cover man This story from the confidential file is marked the wrong green I stumble out of comrade repchenko's office feeling like a guy who's just caught a live grenade and can't let go All I can think of is get to a pay station and call my FBI contact and maybe he can get the stinger out We arranged to meet at rendezvous green Currently a vacant garage away from things in the north side It's a place where a case of jitters can smoke and paste the concrete and flip his lid a little until the memies go away rendezvous green High-class luggage they're going to supply me and take my best clothes along the man said they get easy man Take it easy. All they want me to do this time is commit a felony All I'm supposed to do is pass a lot of counterfeit money at this plush resort. That's all simple This could be a break for us man We've suspected the reds of pouring counterfeit money into resorts where important foreign delegations are staying object To undermine confidence in our exchange and in our government generally also trade a little bad money for good There's a pan-american monetary conference going on at glade of the lakes The reds want you to riddle a place with bad currency Well, what about the effect of those counterfeits on the foreign delegates? You've got a risk red just this once more Prevent it's ever happening again. Lots of people gonna get stuck with bad paper. We'll replace it with good bills. Be worth it You game Matt I'm game. All right, and the season is wide open on me I packed my best clothes and comrade rev chinko promote some nifty luggage for me Also an aircraft beacon tight diamond ring. Don't ask me where the comrades got it In the lobby Matthew Savettex luggage leads all the rest in class dash in quality a Young field marshal escorts me to my $18 room where I'm supposed to relax in a pool of cold Sweat and await for the word from the party. I don't wait very long I like her right away. Perhaps 20 pretty appealing both right-looking anyway Friendly she could be my kid sister and in that two-second inventory I find myself wishing fervently that she isn't a communist. I've brought you the envelope. Oh Come in, please You are Matthew Savette. I'm Roberta King people call me Bobby though What people? Oh, everybody. I have the envelope my handbag Thanks Is that all the father says you'll hear from him later or for me You more than likely dad's so busy.  Who? Never mind Where can you be reached Bobby? We'll be in touch Yeah Goodbye for now. Mr. Svettik. Oh, uh, shall I wait around? No, no, thank you I hope you have a very pleasant stay. Mr. Svettik. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Goodbye Bobby Is Matthew Svettik who are you? Oh, yeah, she's just left why good I haven't picked the winners. It's been her drove selkies just as well What the main object is to spend but what have I win what the money aside spend only your own money Is that clear? I get it. What about Bobby? What about it and and okay? Hello Hello, open the sealed envelope Bobby's left with me $2,000 in 20s 50s and a few hundreds. I take out a few bills and put the rest under the mattress I unpack shower shave and assume the correct attitude of a guy with $400 luggage and a taste for their better things of life I go downstairs to make my initial report to the FBI from the pay station long distance to headquarters operator Operator I deposited my money. When do I get value hello? Oh, never mind operator Hello there Bobby. I tried to call your room in the house. Oh, it's a picasius that you've seen you go into the booth here Yeah, I getting some lukewarm tips on the horses. Oh Well your money came back.  It's not my dough my call was local but how could the operators mistake? I guess Let's go play the races. Hmm I'm here to get rid of some phony money for the party and I know now that pretty Bobby is assigned to see that I do it I'm sorry Bobby and I repair to the turf club for refreshment and high horse strategy Now pick me a winner Bobby not me I can't pick daisies without getting torn well in that case pick me two horses a parlay We'll lose everything. It's only money Or is it? What do you mean or is it? All right, pick two Excuse me, senior a seniorita your partner I Have difficulty to pay for my refreshments the bartender says you are How you say a loader eh? I can change that hundred for you. That's your problem. Yes. Yes, and many times two fifties Okay, excellent. Excellent. Thank you. You're a deep pardon You made a fast reputation for non thrift around here above know who that was big wheel in the Latin delegation The big wheel ought to go around with smaller change now. Where were we? Top secret in the six bomb blasts in the seven get it top secret bomb blasts. See only bomb Bast see bomb that no L. Oh That's right. Anyhow a hundred on top secret to ride on bomb best. How can we lose? huh Anyhow, it's fun Too bad. It can't be more fun. Why can't it be?  Oh Maybe that Bobby, why are you staying so close to me? Father told me you're his responsibility. Do you say in what way? He says you're an old friend and a good comrade, huh? Sure. All right We'll be good comrades too, right? Yeah It could only happen in pictures or to me a Nag named so what is the favorite in the sixth but disqualifies for crowding and top secret wriggles in first Then with the 12 to 1 take from top secret riding on bomb best bomb best promotes himself first across the finish line I take my three thousand dollar profit in honest money One with counterfeit money and sneak away like a thief It could only happen in the pics or in the fix I part with Bobby in the lobby and go up to my room Bobby in the lobby the pics or the fix the money is funny plenty of rhyme But not very much reason than what I've gotten myself into this time I unlocked the door of my room and walk into an acute heart condition Come in Matt How the dickens close the door friend? When did you get in? How did you get in? Influence does the management know your FBI the FBI man at the day desk knows I'm FBI the day clerk We can't let an international conference go on police. Oh Well, I see you found the envelope of funny money first place We look is behind pictures and under the mattress. Have you had a chance to look at the stuff closely? Uh-huh Pretty good stuff isn't it frighteningly good. It's almost perfect counterfeiting Yeah, I get the shakes every time I pass any of it. I can understand Look with these bad bills going into circulation, aren't we going to make a pretty bad impression on the Latin American monetary Delegates, that's the big point with the reds How far do we have to go along with it though? I told you Matt They've got to take risks this once more in the hope of breaking up this particular racket for keeps Do I go on helping undermine confidence in our dollar right in the middle of a pan-american money conference every victory costs Casualties to our side suppose one of those sour bank notes Who would that be? Oh, I don't know who is it? Oh Bobby, who's Bobby?  I'll get rid of her for a couple of minutes. All right. No That's one minute. I mean one of those 50s first. Hey, yeah, here. Yeah, but don't let me smother. Would you? I mean can't squeeze through a mere crack in the wall. Oh Bobby. I'm not quite dressed and I need change for this 50 You're going to a masquerade as far as with the men. I'll be a good kid and change this 50 downstairs. Will you? It's hit your shoes out sir. I'll be glad to polish them. Thanks a lot Bobby back in three minutes. All right, come on Who did you say Bobby was? She's an engraver's daughter. Oh She sounds cute. I better leave one ago. He's good So I'll ask Watch yourself No sentiment. No But here I am waiting for Bobby King to come back Wondering if she'll break that phony bill for me because if she does break it it means she doesn't know it's counterfeit and She'll be in the clear All of a sudden one of the big issues of this fight I'm in is the corruption of young people like Bobby King at least Bobby King is a big issue with me suddenly So please Bobby change that bill Change that queer 50 and Pan American conference or not Bobby. You'll be the big news to me After all, I'm only old enough to be your brother Yeah Oh Come in Bobby Back to Dana Andrews starring as Matt's a vatic and I was a communist for the FBI and the second act of our story I Wait for that door to open and for Bobby King to walk in with or without change from that bad 50 dollar bill If she has the change she's passed counterfeit money for it, but she's proved she's innocent in any of the peculiar skull Duggery going on around here lately Somebody funny look you've gotten your face Bob Did did you change the 50? Terrible time. Did you change it? Finally had to use your magic name though Bobby I don't know why I did that Because you felt very big brotherly towards me all at once What what did you want to talk to me about? I thought to worry what you had against me After all you did say for us to be good friends Comrades, I think I said yes But I'm not worried now. I mean either and then it came to me in a flash of inspiration If you're going to be alone for dinner, you might like pleasant as well as ornamental company like you Why thank you, Mrs. Vedic. I'd love to have dinner with you. How nice of you to think of it. I had help Then there in the hotel dining room could be pleasant if people didn't keep recognizing me as the dude who parlayed two dogs into three grand All at once the Latin delegation across the room Excited voices and converging hotel officials The rumor flies from table to table Ruiz a big wheel in the delegation has paid the check for the counterfeit $50 bill And suddenly Ruiz and the manager are looking toward me Ruiz is nodding I pay my check with good currency and without waiting for the change. I hurry Bobby out of there It's no good on the terrace cropped the manager overhauls us Mr. Svendick miss if I may have a word with you. I am taking this young lady home No, I may speak to both of you, please go ahead in my office, Mr. Svendick All right Now that may I ask your name miss? Well, yes, my name. No, you may not ask. I don't mind Matt I'm mine. I'm mine very much I want to know this man's business with us before we answer any questions at all very well, Mr. Svendick keep it down cough. You're getting shrill I'll tell you then for two days now a flood of counterfeit money has been disorganizing things here the pan-american delegation is greatly disturbed as am I as am I Get on with it tonight. Senior Ruiz chairman of the group was embarrassed when he offered us a bad $50 bill He says you gave it to him in the turf club. I'll better that I gave him two fifties in the turf club Both of them good. Where's the other one Ruiz spent it their excellent counterfeit if they're so good It's a matter for experts to determine not a head waiter of the cashier. Don't you think I'm sure the bill was counterfeit Then somebody gave it to me counterfeit. You admit there are a lot of them around Don't bother this lady and me about it. This lady, Mr. Svendick broke a different $50 bill today in your name. That's right The cashier put it aside. We put aside all bills of $50 are over with data concerning who passed it when etc In the light of recent events. I must consider that bill suspect also how absurd in insulting Well, Mr. Svendick why sympathize with your predicament I'm wanting to have the bill the young lady broke for me examined here in my presence and by an expert Not by you not by your head waiter or some hysterical cashier But an expert certainly if I'm not mistaken as an engraving expert here in your community I insist that you call him at once to establish my innocence. It can't establish your innocence He can only establish that the bill is good at bad. If it is bad like the other we must presume the possibility of guilt Call him. What's his name? Cain. Mr. Miro Cain. He's in the telephone director Croft puts in a call for Cain then we wait for my accomplished red accomplice to appear I'm not worried about the outcome. I can't lose then Miro Cain arrives He peers at us without recognition through his thick lenses. No introductions and so delicate a matter Cain studied the bill for a few seconds Hmm Yes Well, Mr. Cain, I wish I had a thousand such counterfeit bills. Mr. Croft Then it's good a certain amount of attrition from handling which may sometimes be deceptive, but otherwise perfect So good that I'm willing to accept it as my fee $50 exact by all means, Mr. Cain and thank you. Thank you Hmm and to you, Mr. Cervetti my sincere appreciation for your sympathetic cooperation in this matter. Oh, that's all right, Mr. Croft you're in a spot They'll go Bobby. Thank you, Mr. Cervetti Mr. Cervetti, I'd rather be alone. Thank you. I go for a long walk I feel choked smothered by the oppressive events of these two days Cain's verdict is what I expected of course And I credit his wit in managing to pocket the evidence as well It's Bobby that disturbs me. Is she hurt and humiliated by her experience tonight? Does she suspect me in spite of my vindication or is it all part of the act? Is she as red as her father? My head is whirling. I go back to the hotel and lie down fully clothed sleepless Beyond comfort. Yeah Cain. Yeah, come in Come in. Thank you Lock the door Okay. Thank you It was shrewd of you to contrive for me to be the expert this evening comrade Cervetti Shrewd of you to contrive to take the evidence with you as your fee comrade. Thank you That is not why I took it. Oh, I took it as evidence Yes, to be used against you by the control commission of the Communist Party comrade Cervetti What are you talking about saying simply that it was no falsehood to tell mr. Croft tonight that this $50 bill was good because It is good. Well, it can't be what it is Not if it's the one I gave Bobby to change for me This is the one you gave her a change for you and it is a perfectly good United States note And I want to know why it is good Why is it not counterfeit like the rest all the bills I gave you were counterfeit? Why isn't this? That's very I don't wait. Did you get a good $50 bill? I don't know perhaps the control commission will refresh your memory I don't know how the bill got mixed up with the phonies. I tell you perhaps this will make you remember I don't think the control commission will approve of unauthorized gunplay either comrade came now understand this If I am seized by the police or the FBI it will not be merely as a communist but as a counterfeit I will not suffer that comrade so many I Have a daughter who means much to me discuss this with that daughter who means so much to you Ask her if she switched bills when she cashed the one I gave her have a good idea. She'd do it. Why I don't know Answer it. I'll have you covered from my pocket Bobby Why are you here? I was not there I heard everything Rebutted Don't don't touch me.  No, you are one of them And father I'm going out of here now father.  I warn you Bobby. He'll shoot I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it Now I hate them the revolution the party I Hate them all He hates them all which means he isn't likely to report his suspicions of me to the party blood is told in my favor Cain stumbles out of the room dazed and broken I sit on the edge of the bed It's my FBI contact. I tell him what's happened I want the FBI to get to Cain before the party does Cain can be salvaged for decent human purposes after he settled his debt to society Then my contact tells me things you see Matt when you found me in your room I'd already substituted good money for all the counterfeit money that was still left I get there was enough of a bad stuff floating around lots of people stuck with that wrong green We'll make it good and cheap at the price Nice work Matt take a walk get some sleep, and then we'll talk hang up I take a walk for cleansing air to walk the pure night We've taken casualties. All right, Mike Bobby decent level whimsical Bobby. I Find the good people when I always lose them again That's how it's got to be I'm a communist for the FBI. I Walk alone Dana Andrews will return in just a moment This is Dana Andrews. I'd like to remind you that the play you've just heard is firmly based in fact Places people and other data have been changed to protect the innocent Cases like the foregoing are not rare in the communist FBI conflict This story like others in this series is based on incidents in the experience of Matt's a very who worked undercover for the FBI Next week another exciting and revealing adventure. So we will


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Good afternoon, you're all very welcome My name is Paulic Murphy. Could I remind you those who need reminding? before we begin that you do as I do and switch your mobile phone to off the presentation today is part of a series on Opalism and the challenges to deliver lords Which is co-hosted by the Institute and Trinity College Dublin in Association with Trinity research in social sciences We had Last week a presentation in this series by the Minister for finance Who gave part was to my mind a very impressive presentation? Summing up in broad terms was his conclusion was I think it was that populism arose partly from the Propensity of the liberal order to create unacceptable inequalities But he wasn't writing off the liberal order and I here I use Liberal in the sense of this side of the Atlantic and not the other side of the Atlantic he saw Measures to be taken by governments to counteract this tendency to Inequality and his specified inequality of opportunity we have today a Speaker in the shape of professor Jeff Colligan Who is an associate professor at the political science department of Brown University and The director of security studies at the Watson Institute of international and public affairs I won't preempt what he has to say, but I think from what I know of him. He would be giving a more International view of the problem. So we look forward very much to hearing from you Professor Colligan Thank you Well, good afternoon, and thank you for coming It's an honor for me to be here today and a pleasure to be back in Dublin You know, there's no country on earth that is more welcoming to a redheaded visitor than Ireland It's hard to blend in as a redhead in the Middle East or Latin America or wherever you might go But here I have it shot at least until I open my mouth and then the gig is up I was invited to speak about the liberal order is rigged Which is an article that Robert Kohane and I wrote in March 2017 For the journal for an affairs And we were reacting to two events that were then quite recent the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election President Donald J. Trump And we pointed out that the analysts of international relations had until then focused heavily on factors like the rise of China ongoing Islamic terrorism and a resurgent Russia But the biggest threat to the liberal international order that the West had created in the years since 1945 was Not from these external forces, but from within that domestic politics in the West were crucial to understanding world order And the liberal or international order is a set of governing arrangements underpinned by a set of ideas and manifested by a set of institutions like the United Nations the IMF NATO the European Union and the World Trade Organization And while the liberal order has been an extraordinary success in certain ways, it has also become self-defeating partly by contributing to deepening economic inequality and the politics that follow from it and partly because of missteps by self-satisfied elites And so today I want to share our analysis with you, but also update it over the last couple of years Three broad visions have emerged about the liberal order. The first is to hold on to maintain yesterday's Version the second is to rip it down That's the the populist revolt we see in many countries including the United States And the third is a progressive counter revolt led in the United States by people like senator Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders And I want to suggest to you that an international order is politically sustainable Only if it meets three criteria At first it has to share the wealth within their both societies and and do so visibly Second it has to harness international cooperation myopic nationalism hurts everyone and Third it has to respect national communities and that has consequences for immigration dealing with information warfare and much else and Each of the three competing visions that have emerged recently fails on at least one of these three criteria And that suggests that those of us who care about international order, and I imagine most people in this room do Still have some work to do So let's take each of these three visions in turn Start with the the post 1945 liberal order It has multiple successes First and foremost it helped preserve peace among the great powers It's easy to lose sight of the magnitude of that accomplishment Over the the last 70 years or so is a uniquely Peaceful period among major powers at least since the end of the Roman Empire And the stability provided by the local order discouraged countries such as Germany Japan Saudi Arabia and South Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons the order also allowed Europe to rebuild after World War two and Then the developing world to advance unevenly But with billions of people rising out of poverty and new middle classes burgeoning all over the world But for all its successes the orders institutions became disconnected from domestic society in the very countries that created them a neoliberal economic agenda, especially after about 1980 eroded the social contract that Provides the crucial political support needed for the liberal order's long-term survival Many middle-class and working-class voters in the United Kingdom the United States and elsewhere came to believe With a good deal of justification that the system is rigged Those of us who have not only analyzed globalization and the liberal order, but have celebrated them Share some responsibility for the rise of populism We did not pay enough attention as capitalism hijacked globalization International institutions were created by and for economic elites Who created firmer links between themselves and governments and ordinary people were left out So let's put some facts behind that between 1974 and 2015 real median household incomes for Americans with no college education fell by roughly 20% Those with college degrees saw their incomes rise by 17% and even more so for those with graduate degrees So the bill for that broken social contract came due in 2016 on both sides of the Atlantic Since then we have continued to see signs of populist dissatisfaction the gilet-jeune's movement in France and Belgium is an obvious case and Italian-Austrian and Danish politics are more complicated, but also animated by populist anger Of course economic factors are not the only thing that mattered social values identity politics and partisan polarization played a vital role and social scientists have had a good time over the last two years arguing about whether it is economic factors or non-economic factors that do most of the work and explaining the rise of populism Both things matter There's no question that if you survey voters about their concerns what gets expressed tends to be Social values and issues of trust in society not the details of economic policy That's not top of mind for most most voters Underneath them economics matter. It always does and whether in Weimar Germany Where the Nazis flourish or in Venezuela in the 1990s that produced Hugo Chavez stagnating unequal economies breed populist discontent to international factors Exacerbate this problem in today's Europe and North America The first was a loss of social solidarity brought on by the end of the Cold War During that period the perceived Soviet threat generated a strong US attachment not only to its alliances But to other multilateral institutions and social psychologists have demonstrated the crucial importance of othering in identity formation For individuals and nations alike a clear sense of who is not on your team Makes you feel closer to those who are in the fall of the Soviet Union removed the main other from the American political imagination and thereby reduced social cohesion and This was especially problematic for the Republican Party Which had long been a bastion of tough on Communism anti-communism And with the Soviets gone the Republicans bet noir Gradually shifted from communists to Washington elites and Trump ism is the logical extension of that movement In Europe the end of the Cold War was consequential for a somewhat different reason during the Cold War leaders in Western Europe Constantly sought to stave off the domestic appeal of communism and socialism After 1989 no longer facing that constraint National governments and EU officials in Brussels expanded the Union's authority to that trend and sorry Expanded the Union's authority and scope Even in the face of a series of national referenda that expressed opposition to that trend and should have served as warning signs of growing working-class discontent and That points to the second exacerbating force namely multilateral overreach Institutions like the UN and the EU can facilitate cooperation and solve mutual problems But doing so requires that countries curb their autonomy somewhat The natural tendency of such institutions like all institutions is to expand their authority on each occasion There is some seemingly valid rationale The cumulative effect of such expansions of international authority however is to excessively limit Sovereignty and give people the sense that foreign forces are controlling their lives The Brexit vote demonstrated the consequences of a lack of responsiveness in Brussels to national concerns even though ironically The utter mess that British politicians have made of Bruxett might actually reinforce the complacency in Brussels Multilateral institutions must never assume that voters have no alternative and must do whatever they insist Voters always have an alternative. So collectively these failures of the liberal order helped generate a populist revolt in many countries and that revolt manifests the second of the three visions I Identified earlier namely to rip down the liberal order And I am not a fan, but let's give this vision it to do it gets a few big things right and I'll name four China is a real problem Burden sharing in alliances like NATO Is not always well balanced The gains of economic integration Are not being well distributed in the United States especially but also much of Europe and Immigration does bring challenges even if populists exaggerate them and then mix in racism and xenophobia So the populist vision is a nationalist one where each country looks out for itself multilateral cooperation is thin and rare and International politics is transactional rather than based on relationships That approach is profoundly flawed because it has countries withdrawing from the world Just when we need more international cooperation, not less Two big risks from this approach jump out immediately the first is climate change our planet has a fever and humans are the cause of it The damage we are doing to our world will far outweigh the cost of taking sensible steps right now To mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions Yet we are failing to do so and Part of the reason we are failing is that each state hopes that the rest of the world will move first So that it won't have to bear so much of the cost Populists and nationalists have no answer for that problem and by extension no answer to the central global threat of our times As if that wasn't enough the second big risk is the rising chance of major power war Populists want tough-minded realism But tough-minded realism is in some sense a self-fulfilling prophecy It weakens the economic and non-economic bonds between states and creates an atmosphere of distrust And of course positive diplomacy does not mean that you know pretty words can can make whatever world we want but ideas matter and People always have choices the wrong words can push the wrong ideas and in the long run the wrong Ideas could put major powers on the path to war So these two big risks are flanked by a host of other ones We need a coherent Western response to various abuses by Russia by China by the Saudis and by others We also need to manage the increasing complexity of interdependence among liberal democracies And all these issues the populist approach to a foreign policy is a dead-end It has inspired though a third vision a foreign policy by those on the progressive left and Here I must limit myself To speak only of the American progressive left Because it is the one I know best though. I believe there are parallels in other countries as well Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and two probable contenders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020 each recently gave major foreign policy addresses describing their outlooks and Scholars and analysts like my colleague Dan Nexon have added to this collection Progressives want a long list of changes to US foreign policy particularly current US foreign policy and the list includes a recommitment to allies and to multilateral deals like the Paris Agreement on climate and the Iran nuclear deal They want withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq Giving labor leaders a seat at the table for international trade deals Greater transparency of cross-national asset flows and curbs on corporate tax havens Protecting the electoral process from foreign interference Reversing huge tax cuts for the rich that exacerbate the deficit and crowds out other government priorities and a recommitment to Nuclear non-proliferation and arms control so they get a lot of things right in that list Above all they understand that the dividing line between foreign and domestic politics has disappeared in the 21st century Elizabeth Warren writes that Actions that undermine working families in this country Ultimately erode American strength in the world, but progressives also tend to dodge some of the big issues The clearest case of that tendency is on the crucial issue of immigration Where progressive leaders barely mention it at all? It is an issue that they would rather not talk about Because different parts of the progressive coalition want different things on immigration And that approach won't cut it While their leaders waffle or remain mute some progressives have led a social media campaign hashtag abolish ice Referring to the the US immigration and customs enforcement agency And that creates the impression that progressives want open borders and no limits on immigration at all Other progressives want immigration with sensible limits But that message gets drowned out And by contrast the populist right has a very clear message on immigration Populist blame immigrants for crime Strain on public services demographic change and loss of social solidarity Like it or not that message is appealing For a significant part of the electorate in many countries Maybe not this one. We were talking about that at lunch, but many countries Fear and xenophobia are powerful political weapons and plenty of demagogues on the right know how to wield them Populist discontent is also not all racism and hatred Populists have tapped into a genuine desire for sustaining national culture That desire is understandable and it is keenly felt in almost every nation on earth It is undeniably true that immigration can change a national culture over time Even though as progressives would point out immigration is part of what enriches a national culture to The real question here is about how to balance social tradition with social renewal Besides immigration progressives can also be a bit incoherent on trade and they talk tough on China or Mexico, but they also praise the WTO and criticize things like Trump's NAFTA's replacement So progressives leave voters confused. Do they want trade or not? And they are not clear enough that the desirability of trade depends crucially on one's trading partners especially trade among complex economies good trade rests on trust relationships between countries and a certain degree of compatibility between domestic systems So if we return to the the criteria for a sustainable order that I mentioned at the outset We see that each of the three alternative visions Fails on at least one of the criteria Clinging to yesterday's liberal order does not spread the wealth nearly evenly enough which rots the domestic support for it over time Populist nationalism does not harness international cooperation to meet the crucial challenges of global interdependence Most notably climate change but other things as well and the progressive alternative does not do enough to respect national communities at least on the issue of immigration though. It does do better than most on You know emphasizing the need to protect elections from foreign interference So how to move them forward in a better direction Let's turn those criteria for politically sustainable international order into design principles and start with the principle of Harnessing the power of multilateral multilateral cooperation Not every issue needs to be solved at the global level But there are some things that we must do together as a world community despite our very real differences Climate change arms control dispute resolution and peacekeeping protection of the oceans preventing disease pandemics are all candidates for this type of cooperation on these issues the liberal democracies of Europe and North America Have to cooperate with autocracies like China and Russia Let me say one more word of a climate change The gilet jaune in France who got started by protesting a hike in fuel prices that the government Justified as an environmental measure Our only one of several indicators if you look around the world that the costs of preventing climate change Cannot be placed Disproportionately on the working class Just the opposite in fact elites must face the fact that if they want to pass on a Good world to their children They must know we must Be willing to bear the bulk of the cost of at least the first steps of reducing greenhouse gas emissions So I find promising the discussions in the US Congress of a green new deal Which marries environmental and inequality concerns together The second step is to design trade deals and other forms of economic integration which includes the movement of people and Money as well as goods in ways that shares the wealth among the working classes of liberal societies And in practice, I suspect that means linking the most favored nation principle To the compatibility of domestic economic and legal systems While liberal democracies can and should cooperate with autocracies in some areas They should reserve the strongest forms of cooperation to other liberal democracies And my recommendation here reflects the trajectory of Russia and China over the last 30 years There was a time especially in the late 1990s early 2000s when Americans and Europeans hoped or believed That by integrating Russia and China into the world economy and giving them membership in the WTO we could shape their economies in a more capitalist direction bound by the rule of law It might even lead to democracy Today I think the hard facts are quite clear Russia and China are as autocratic as ever and they are not going to change due to external forces In fact their governments are likely to take advantage of openness by liberal democracies to suit their own needs It is with regret but also a dose of real urgency That liberal democracies must tighten market access against non-liberal societies The main reason for doing so is to help ensure that the gains from such integration are shared internally domestically And that trade deals do not undermine the working classes or national security Yet the club model of Economic integration comes with an important side benefit namely that it generates an incentive for semi-autocratic countries or fragile democracies To liberalize and to maintain the rule of law so that they can be part of that integration The third principle is to respect national communities and that can be translated into policy in a variety of Domains both foreign and domestic I'm especially drawn to proposals from political scientists Ken Sheevy and Matthew Slaughter They call for a reversal of the regressive tax cuts in the United States And plowing that money back into lifelong learning initiatives to raise Human capital in the working classes in the United States Those proposals are needed more in the US than in Europe, but nonetheless Sheevy and Slaughter's focus on career-long education and Incremental retraining is something that deserves I think more attention even in Europe Economists like Danny Rodrick and Gabriel Zuckman also have some good ideas I think Europeans would be especially wise to confront Roderick's trilemma Which stipulates that there are you know three things of which a country can have at most two namely national sovereignty electoral politics and deep economic integration So there's tension between those three As Roderick points out most politicians in Europe gloss over the trade-offs And are vague about what balance between those three and that they favor and regrettably Only the xenophobic Nationalists are really clear about where they stand with respect to that to Roderick's trilemma They they prioritize national autonomy and electoral politics at the price of international integration They're willing to give that on Immigration I think centrists and progressives must have a clear answer that favors controlled immigration. I'm an immigrant myself We should clearly and firmly reject the idea of completely open borders as unwise and politically unsustainable But moderate immigration Enriches a nation materially and socially. It's really beneficial Immigrants should be able to earn their way to full citizenship over time But that does not mean that they have to have full access to all parts of the welfare state from the very first day that they arrived More broadly those who favor international cooperation Must have a simple message to match the likes of Donald Trump Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen Populism has a clear marketable ideology defined by toughness nationalism and nativism like it or not America first is a marketable slogan To respond pro bono proponents must offer a similarly clear Coherent alternative and it must offer an appealing vision for our children's future So put these three elements together kind of a thin network of global cooperation on certain key issues a thick club model of Economic integration among liberal democracies and a set of national policies to support international openness and you get a kind of Multi-speed form of international order and I think you Europeans know more about the pros and cons of multi-speed Integration than we North Americans do But it is high time we caught up The post-cold war Unipolar moment is over and the United States cannot afford to have a monolithic vision for world order Successful cooperation will be Differentiated cooperation So let me wrap up by returning us to that moment in the closing days of World War two when the liberal order was originally designed Before the Cold War even began the liberal order was built to avoid the dangers of excessive nationalism Today nationalist ideas ride again Donald Trump declares himself a nationalist It is an ideal ideology that will probably never be wholly defeated There will always be some who want to twist the identity of a nation to serve their own purposes And I think it is time that progressives centrist and liberals of all stripes Went on the attack for the battle of national identity politics The challenges are from within and from without whether it is ethno nationalism in the White House or Authoritarianism in Beijing and Moscow Like the answer to those challenges Let the answer to those challenges be a rejuvenated liberalism One tempered by the lessons of history and the desire to create opportunity for all members of society Liberal society is based on freedom pluralism democracy enterprise At its best it brings together market competition with social solidarity That is a vision that is appealing and it is one that works And stack that up against the Chinese or Russian model Anytime anywhere in the world any day of the week and let's see who comes out on top Thanks so much for listening


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