Will the National Elites Be Able to Make Allies With the Global Elites?

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The question is will the national elites be able to make alliance with the global elites in a way that pushes everyone or nearly everyone into their economic orbit or where there'll be some crazy pushback. For me i think we should move to a world that's more like a quilt where you can move across clearly set boundaries from one world to another with some sort of respect level. But at the same time there's some sort of operating manual for for how to get along as human beings and i don't know what that looks like but the quilt looks much more attractive to me than the monochrome blanket which i think these these these cats want to throw over the whole world.

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

In our conversation we dive into: