it's kind of inevitable that inequality will continue to grow and people will will continue to grow and people will get disaffected . get disaffected . But to the extent that war breaks out, But to the extent that war breaks out, yes, I think so. You can see some of the yes, I think so. You can see some of the tensions in many countries around the tensions in many countries around the
Another way of saying that, again, is gifts or medicine. many disaffected young people.
mind. And I think that explains why so many of them who had devoted years of their lives to serving him ended up deeply disaffected with him. They started out working for the FDR they had in their minds only to find out that when political expediency called he could turn into somebody completely different.
spot to put out a fire. As his close friend and his speech writer Raymond Moly observed many years later when he was disaffected , Moly said, "To look upon these policies as the result of a unified plan would be to believe that the accumulation of stuffed snakes, baseball pictures, school flags, old tennis shoes,
world where the polarization of politics world where the polarization of politics is such that there is a very big is such that there is a very big proportion of disaffected people. And so proportion of disaffected people. And so you layer on top of that not being able you layer on top of that not being able to have access to food uh in a in an to have access to food uh in a in an affordable way then you do have the kind
Everyone imagines-- my manager says that one of the greatest things to ever happen to The Roots was the fact that we never had a Bentley moment. She's so disaffected and uninterested in those things.
And they, just like 20 years ago, we had this investment bubble that used pension funds to teach humanities majors how to write JavaScript, this bubble turns a whole ton of disaffected post-millennials into airship builders and pilots, but doesn't actually produce a functional airship economy. And so a bunch of them just start building airships.
He wasn't civilized. Verne is saying this about himself. Morris is so disaffected that he is a revolutionary socialist who spent a lot of time advocating for revolution in Britain at a time when Marx had died but Engels is still there.
in Britain at a time when Marx had died but Engels is still there. And this is an astounding statement of disaffection. "Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion in my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization."
And it's an illustration of the dangers of being overly heavy handed in your approach to counterinsurgency, because that can backfire, as it in fact did for the French in Algeria. A lot of what occurred among disaffected soldiers and sailors who were mutinying against the tsar because they were on the losing end of a conflict.
did play outside until 6 o'clock and it was time for dinner and when there were tons of children running around. And so she was really disaffected with that aspect, and then with the aspect that nobody walked or-- they actually lived close to their school and she tried to organize an effort to get the parents to walk a group of
ahead, if we don't deal with this, then ahead, if we don't deal with this, then it's kind of inevitable that inequality it's kind of inevitable that inequality will continue to grow and people will will continue to grow and people will get disaffected . get disaffected . But to the extent that war breaks out, But to the extent that war breaks out, yes, I think so. You can see some of the
to the recitation of a single mantra. never reached and only the feet land on the bottom rung of the ladder that indeed goes nowhere in a sea of disaffection and alienation,
I will find a prize for you. It's more things like, this person who I work with every day who's disaffected and disassociated and sad, they're going to be compromised.
that's the life I want you know it's this couple they they like escape the city during the summer and they go out and find out well there's a certain monotony to the countryside as well and so they become disaffected but then ultimately they have this party it's really fun so really inspired by it uh really inspired by these needless to say
Adrian Danchig-Waring: Yeah. So ultimately we came up with something that we really felt like tied into this narrative of exploring the importance of these muse relationships. So we're opening the evening with Apollo which is a Balanchine masterpiece which quite literally tells this story of a young disaffected demigod finding his muse. And in this way because it's a story, although an abstracted story, it honors the inheritance of ballet which was very much a storytelling art form sort of through the early operatic versions in
And it just flared right up because it's an ancient tool that demagogues can use. I think you can play in the ancient hatreds. But the ancient hatreds come up because other reasons arise, economic in the former Yugoslavian he was suggesting. Well, you could make a kind of a tie in here that the party that's benefiting from, let's call them, disaffected , disenfranchised whites in the American Rust Belt, voting for the Trump administration. What if we could have helped those people four or five administrations ago in the Rust Belt, not end up in the Rust Belt? Are
special outreach to communities that have experienced historical injustices. But, you know, people who live in rural areas are disaffected because of lack of jobs and a bad economy and don't trust government. They also need very special outreach, like that woman I mentioned before who said, I just want to know, you know, what the facts
And that was the meeting where one of the people said, "I just want to know what the facts are and don't change them." That was in that long conversation, it became really clear to me That these folks were deeply disaffected from government, from the healthcare system, from society, and they really felt that their questions had not just not been answered, but hadn't even been addressed, and that they had been
That's been the case for the past few years. You have stuff like the Luigi and United Healthcare CEO or the Charlie Kirk shooting, right? And so I think increasingly a lot of disaffected , maybe nihilistic young people are turning towards political violence as a way to express the political beliefs that they I suppose maybe don't feel they have other channels for or maybe that person is
But a lot of it, in a way, is a certain kind of disaffection, I think, with companies that have, they feel,