Vocabulary of Change

Watch the video and answer the questions

1. According to Davis, what is the challenge of the 21st century?

2. What does Wise mean by “empathic collapse”?

3. How has the narrative around poverty and joblessness changed in the last 70 years?

4. What are some of the things Wise and Davis say we should pay attention to and talk about?

5. Give an example of a “new form of racism.”

6. Do you think we are “brave enough to act in solidarity with what we believe in”? Why or why not?

7. What does it mean, as a language practice, to be “middle-class”? How is it different than “working class”?

8. Why is authentic dialogue and honoring another’s experiences important?

9. What does it mean to be, as Antonio Gramsci put it, a pessimist of the intellect and an optimist of the will?

10. What is YOUR vision for the world you want to create? (answer on the other side)