30min or less

Vietnam has fought and defeated countless Goliaths to achieve its liberation.

While our people in Palestine are still fighting their own Goliath, we wanted to learn, how did the Vietnamese do it? And what happens once this Goliath is taken down? What does a national identity built on liberation and resistance look like when the country’s at peace? And is Vietnam really at peace?

We traveled to Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City Saigon in the South to explore Vietnam’s story of liberation, and the story it's writing now.

Cheyenne Lim (28:52).

Intro 0:00 Part 1: Is the U.S. actually declining? 3:29 Part 2: Declinism in Politics: What is it and How is it Used 15:28 Part 3: The Romanticization of Declinism as Part of the “American Identity” 20:59 Conclusion 25:36

32:45 The allure of youth has naturally shifted from being about innocence to being about achievement.

• Time famine
• Growing old is not fun, elder community care

CJ the X (27:12): unpacking my thoughts on online performance through the burning of an innocent sacrificial lamb

references C. Thi Nguyen, Trust and Sincerity in Art (2021) https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/id/1139/

Andrewism (34:41) We need a social revolution to build a better future. But how is that process carried out? What tactics and strategies are needed to fundamentally transform the socioeconomic and political order? How do we combine a range of acts of confrontation, noncooperation, and prefiguration to reshape our world? Let's find out.

TIMESTAMPS

Introduction - 0:00 Affinity Groups - 4:22 Oppose (Confrontation) - 6:08 Oppose (Noncooperation) - 14:59 Propose (Prefiguration) - 19:45 Conclusion - 30:16 Outro - 33:54