No, no, groceries at the first thing people talk about nowadays when we meet is, what
do you talk about? The price of groceries. Oh, my God, groceries are so expensive. And
so, of course, our daily live reality are limited by close-up scenes of job, family,
neighbourhoods. So we have that circle there. Our familiarity with our own social
political economic, we observe and interact in other social political and economic spirit,
by curiously as we mean spectators, because you know what is happening in the United
States is gonna affect you, but you don't have that deep, you don't have the time to sit
down and say, "Oh, my God, what's going to happen? Because you're busy trying to
survive. You have to survive, okay? So, you know, what is happening in the U.S will
impact you. What is happening in China will impact you. You notice said that the
Ukraine war, what happened in Ukraine? You were talking about weeks. a lot of the
world, we come from Ukraine, okay? So there's Now we have a global society where
there's an interconnectedness. When I'm going to do the sectionality next week, you're
going to see this, okay? So, of course, people feel trapped. You will, because, oh, my
God, last last year there was this. This year there is Trump Tariff. There is a new
election. Is this guy a miracle work or no, he's not. But we put a lot of pressure on this
job. The thing that he's going to be able to deliver us. And when you go to the grocery
store, you guys, I don't know, I don't want to aid you here, Anna, or my tea is them. I
don't know if you remember the good old days of 199 cents a pound for Apple. Those
days are no longer here. Noo, you remember Casey, okay? So you guys remember
Have you ever seen 99 cents for apple anymore? It went from 199 cents a pound to
$150 a pound. Now, if you get it for they're so clever,9. So you don't think it's $2? You
know that one cent make a huge difference psycholog. That's the trap, right? So you
were seeing you see like some I look and I said, " this is a whole $5 dollars for this little
thing? I'm not going to pay that." The dollar store. dollar tree used to be $125. Okay,
they went to $150.0. Now, this year, I walked in until my grave dismay. It is 175. I
complain at home for a whole month, because I buy my craft there, and it's like, how
could they do this to me? and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The same thing I used to pay $125 for, which in the last two years has gone to 175. So
on a lot of people shop at the Dollar store, do you guys remember when Dollarama was
only a dollar? Again, I might be ageing people here. Then it went to $150 Then he says,
"A dollar plus," Right? Now they have five dollar stuff. So think about it. And when you
So when you're go to grocery store, this is also happening, right? So this sense of being
trapped limits one's ability to see beyond, to observe local global changes, and critically
analyze these. So you are here. Do you think you got time to think about, oh, my God,
what would Trump tariff? What's the impact of Trumps tariff on me?, you know what? All
you could think about isPy, moly. What am I gonna be paying for Apple right now? It's
too, you, apple a day, keep the doctor away. The thing an apple is a Canadian produce.
Why can I not afford apple? $2,250, you know, or maybe not it's going to be $299. So
my immediate worries is what, how am I gonna pay bills? I' home insurance is coming
up. The car insurance is coming up, you know. All the stuff that you're worried about.
The children's, I'm I'm going to stop the shared screen for a minute here. Think about it
like, Many of you do not have children, but I'm sure your parents, you know, were
extraricular activities. You see these going up. I'll give you guys an example. I don't
know how many of you attend the campus. In my days, when I started, they did myself
right now $2 a day for parking. Even then, I did not want to paint it. It went from $2 to
$4. dollars to $6 dollars, but a parking spot remained the same. It didn't get bigger. It
didn't give me a cocktail when I pull in and said, "Hey, you poor buddy, here is
something to drink, because I've raised the price. Now, it's $15 a day, but you know, in
the good old days, you used to be able to steal parking, like you would go find a place
where no tickets would be issued, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, I think you have to
pay $25 a day. You have to pay $15 a day. What changed? And you guys have so much
power. You just sit back and say, "We have to pay this kind of stuff." So he said, you
know, you don't have the time as a student, you're doing so many things. You're a
student, you're a worker. You are a daughter, you're a son, you are a lover. I love you,
one lover is a bad word. I don't know, man. You're a partner or something like that.
Sometimes I would say things that I don't mean it. It just, you know, I'm thinking as I'm
going. So all these roles are demanding from you, and you don't have time to make
these connections and say, why is it that prices of groceries are so high? Why is it that
the schools are asking me every time to say, in the name of fundraising, I should pay $4
dollars for a slice of pizza. One dollar for this little paper bag of popcorn when I visit,
right? Now, don't get me wrong. I have no objection to that, but I'm just saying, like, why
does school need the fundraise when we pay our taxes? Amongst all of this, remember
our taxes goes up, right? So the M said the facts of contemporary history also facts
about the success and the failure of individual men and women, okay? All social,
political, and economic transformation impacts individual family, neighbourhood,
community, and country. Whatever is happening is impacting you. You might not fail the
impact directly, but there is what is called a trickle dung effect, right? So if I was to go
back to my whiteboard again, new whiteboard, whiteboard classic. Okay, you know, let's
say the Ukraine War. You might be, you know, like, um, let's get this individual here and
name. Let's say Joshua. I like that name,. I hope nobody has. I think that's what he's
about, yeah. So Joshua, poor Joshua is here, and it's unemployed, not that working
multiple jobs. And, you know, what does the Ukraine War have to do with me? Does's
not affect me. It does affect you, right? All the conflicts that we have in this world, it does
have an impact, it have an impact on goods and trade, it has impacted your security,
you know, like, are you safe? Are you not safe? Where can you go? Where can you not
go? What are the goods that we depend on these countries for, right? And if there is
some destabilizing situation in that country, how will it impact you? So our social political
and economic transformation impacts the individual, family and neighbourhood. So I'm
going to go here. In fact it, I am.. It's just that the individual is not able to make that
connection, right? And that's why, you know, people, that's why C. White Mill start the
article by say nowadays, people often feel that they're private lives are a series of
trucks. Because they're not able to look around and see what is happening, okay? So,
sorry about that. Just one sec. Okay. But he said, when a society changes, right? And
we saw, or we could measure, literally measure the impact technology he's had in
society, the way we communicate with each other, the way we reach out to each other,
you know, now we could have a real time conversation with someone overseas. And
whereas in the whole good old days, I would tell you, when you first migrated to this
country, it was so about Canada became rich and many, many immigrants. It was so
expensive to reach out to your families. Now, what do you do? You just go to WhatsApp,
you press their number and they pick up the phone,Hi, how are you doing? Oh, it's da
da. What's the weather like? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, I'm cooking this and I'm making
that. I's, wow, this is, you know, this is amazing. I could connect with, I have my cousin
them all over the world, I connect with them in real time. And we talk about that. So, you
know, so when, when whatever happened in a society, whatever transformation, okay, it
has an impact. Take, for example, COVID, how did COVID impact us? Hmm? COVID
change to where we interacted with each other, and it continues to change the way we
interact with each other, because, you know, instead of hugging, you want to keep
people at a distance, you know, we learned a new concept, social distancing. Where are
we going to talk about a social are we going to find out? This concept of social
distancing? Because interaction used to be a bit, you know, sometimes you have
boundaries, sometimes you do not. Social distancing is something that COVID told us
that we have to be a part of.. Okay, yeah, therefore, what you write most said, neither
the life of an individual nor the the history of a society can be understood with so to
understanding both. We cannot understand Joshua's life unless we understand what is
happening in that society that Joshua is living in. It's Joshua. If he's living in his States,
could you imagine the level of anxiety? There is a new concept that that's a lot of
analysis is talking about social anxiety and how whatever is happening in society, how
it's impacted you. what again, I could only tell you in terms of the differences that I
noticed about myself and I am someone who always used to be tuned into news and
read. I cannot do that anymore. I honestly cannot because the days I worry about stuff,
things that I cannot control are child is dying, you read about this, a woman is abused,
and I just said, I cannot deal with this, because I need to sleep in the night, I have to go.
That's not because I'm being dismissive. I just have to protect my own self. So C right
so, the life of the individual, not a history, history. If I was to ask you guys, what is
history, okay? Of a society can be on we cannot understand the history your life the
history of the society that you lived in, some of you might be overseas, some of you
might be right here, right? The society that you lived in, that you currently live in, you
cannot understand that unless you connect the two together, right? So what exactly do
you think what exactly do you think does she right Mans is saying? Okay, let me try to
get this for you guys. So he said, but after, you know, the ordinary individual, as I
previously stated, you do not have the time to do this, you know, like, oh, my God, do
you think I got time to wake up and listen to the news and dwell on who's dying where?
What is the government going to do? I have to get to work at 930. I have to get to work
at 8:30. I have, you know, first, I have to take the chair to school. Second after school, I
have to go, I have to go put gas in a car. Then I have to go do all this stuff, right? So
you're always in a hurry, so as an individual in society, we do not make the connection
between what is happening and our society, to what is happening with us. You're not.
You're too busy. Remember, you keep thinking about this. Do you sit and dwell in, okay,
what's going to happen with the Tarius, right? Like, when Ki was being elected, I was
glued because I wanted to know, I was glued to boat the U.S. politics as well as
Canadian politics. And I've concluded to myself, I got a really pull back a bit because
psychologically, it's having a tremendous impact in me. I normally didn't it was just more,
you know, so if what is happening in the U.S., workers have been unemployed. What
does it mean for Canadian society? It means that the U.S. is not important in our
product, we are not able to export our product. If we cannot export to the U.S., what
does it mean for the people in Canad? How many people are going to lose their jobs?
Their houses, their cars, you know, how they're so, this is such an interconnectedness
of these challenges. And this is what is affecting the individual. So, you know, by
COVID-19, we were not spending during COVID-19. That had an impact on an
economy. Now, right now, there's a demand to the Bank of Canada to say, you need to
reduce the interest rate because people cannot survive. I am sure a lot of people are
weird. Like you parents and many, many people, the only ask that they have is their
house. How any interest rate is climbing, people could barely survive, right? So we
rarely make the connection between the patterns of our lives. I'm going to go back to
this wide I like the wide boat. Are people finding this wideboard business healthy or not?
What do you want to do? Let me know. Some of you are sleeping and that's okay,
Laura. You can sleep. So, okay, so I'll go to the white B again, people. What did I use?
This white Buddha has a mind of it soon. I don't know why they need to improve. So let
me put another nodes here. You know this whiteboard is really fancy. I like it a lot. I don't
know if people are familiar with it. So we really make a connection. between our flies,
and the historically specific, something historically might be spelled wrong. realities of
the times we are living in, okay? HS Yeah. So the connection between the patterns of
our lives, okay, this concept of the patterns of our lives, I don't what else can we do here
anyway? Let me leave it at that. But this is important, right? The historically specific we
are. When you get a PhD, let me tell you something. The one thing that you succeed in
doing is learning to spell poorly. At the times, the times, we are living in. Okay. Okay. So,
so you said, according to Mills, this is his argument. What did I do? Did I change the
wides screen or something? Can you people see the wide screen or can you guys still
see the wide screen? Okay, so it's my problem here. What did I do? Something else
appear in my screen. Okay, I'll get back to. Okay, wait for this. Oh, I see. Sorry about
that. Yeah. Okay. It is because we do a cart of mills. This is what he says, right? We do
not possess the quality of mind, that concept of the quality of mind, it's going to be in
your test. I need you to answer your answers should include the quality of mind, right?
So what Mels is saying, I'm going to take out I'm going to go over here now and do
something thing, right? So, you were like, quality of mind, because you know essential
to grasp the interplay to GN. The interplay or interconnection or the connection. Let's
say interplay the connections, you know, NNAC connection. of the individual of the IDIVI
to what is happening in society. Okay? A biography of the O G PH and history sell and
world, okay? They cannot cate their personal trouble in such a way has to control the
structural transformation that usually line behind them. So personal troubles. SC
structural. Okay. These are all overwhelming. These are the kind of stuff that you know.
It's. Just give me a second. The world that we're living in is rapidly changing. Is that not
the case? Is the world we're living in rapidly changing? Yeah. historical facts that are
now quickly becoming merely history. Remember, if I'm going to ask you guys this
question, and I'd probably will ask you this question after I stop sharing it screen. The
history that now affects every individual is world history. It's always been world history. If
you're not living in a little corner of the world, you know I was I was looking at a video at
my out of class yesterday just saying that humans are not isolated, because what is a
society? It's a society is an interconnectedness and add all of that, right? When I was a
cheeky, when I was a university, you know, I was very cheeky and cocky both, which is
a dangerous combination. And when my professor will say that, I would say like, but
Provincy Crusoe survived, people know who this chap is? Anybody knows who
Robinson Crusoe is? I think you guys play a game that said Robin, Robin Cruso, Cruso,
something like that. This is a fellow who was shipwrecked, a British fella, and he was
shipwrecked, and he was under the island. It was very rude.'s a very good story. Did
see you guys need to read this kind of old thing. And he lived there and he started to
reconstruct, you know, it's not a society, like a house and started to survive there. And
Robin Cu was by himself for a very long time. And I read this and I'm Younger and I
really should be rereading this stuff and I'm talking to Studan so I could have the
arumated information, but I'm going to give you gist of it. And then one day, Rob' Crus
see that there were other people on the islands, right? Indigenous people. Of course,
there was always people inhabited islands. You just do not see them. But what he saw
they were doing, they had somebody with them, and they were going to sacrifice this
person and they laid I think they laid them down to be sacrificed, and they left. And so
he went and he he saved that person. And then he had his he called him Friday, on
Friday, I think he called him. he became obviously Cruseau helper, right? You have to
read this story. My point being is that, you know, people that survive and you have all
this kind of thing. It's just throw an in another story to take on a deep academic thing
where you're supposed to be depinished right now. In what period have so many people
been so totally exposed at so fast a pace that such earthquakes have changed?
Imagine this, social media, what has it done to us? Immediately we get that feed, and
we get that feed for multiple sources, okay? The Americans have not known such
catastrophic changes as have the men and women about the society is due to within a
scene and this period in the course of a single generation, one sixth of humankind is
transformed from all that is futile and backward into all that is modern. Now, he's
speaking about the international revolution, but imagine what transformation has
happened as a result of technology. Now, AI, and I never used to pay any attention to
AI. I do not like sci fi movies, but I'll tell you something. I get this again, O, or maybe
because I'm, you know, most of my hair is great. Maybe that does something for your
brains, because I'll tell you something. I start thinking to myself, these sci fi movies, I
need to go look at this movies again and do analysis of them because if the computers
take over or the machine take over, is this where we have to look at Arnolds horse
andago? And what did he say, I'm going to be back. Is that the one where he says, I'm
going to be back? Okay. But, you know, like, it makes sense now what they were
showing. The transformation that is happening with AI. And when I have discussions
with friends of mine who are engineers, absolutely no social science and humanities to
them, right? Oh, AI, AI, let them use AI. I said, what happened with them that think?
Don't you think they need to think, too? Oh, but you I said, "This is the problem you
don't realize that we as human being are thinking. We need to be constantly creating.
But if we give the machine to do all of this, the devil will definitely find work for our high
hands as we will do exactly what this iside, what the movies are predicted, okay? Is it
making sense what I'm trying to tell people here? The transformation that is happening?
We need to think about it. Is this the society we want to live in, when you f? It says,
"Press one, if you need a doctor.Press two if you need a nurse, you phone your parents,
it says, "Press one if you need mum.Press two if you need that, pressress three if you
need your brother, you know, kind of thing.I this the world we want to be living in,
Casey? It wanted to make a personal comment. Maybe this is more existential, but, like,
the more you're aware or I'll speak from my experience. I'm aware of these things. I
think about these things. You mentioned about creating boundaries with politics and
stuff. Yeah, we're affected by all of this. We're interconnected. But at what point is it
actually helpful for us? I think in this article, it's the ideas to like, maybe we acknowledge
these things and we can empower ourselves or use that information to be kinder or
more compassionate. I'm not really sure, because I understand when you take all of this
in, you're going to feel quite angry at times, right? You're gonna feel angry, and then you
can just be stuck in that anger. So within all these points that you've made and you've
mentioned, specifically with technology, politics, all of that, it's like, well, do we just
become more aware and angry within it as the robots take over? No, I thinko, but this is
why Sonya. Oh, sorry, I had this on. I didn't even know. I was talking this. No, I was just
wondering, for the, the Wright mills, the promise text in the course text readings, I wasn't
sure. I couldn't find where to access that. Was that something we have to search up on
our own?, Son, is in the syllabus, okay? It's also on E class. Okay, I couldn't find the
PDF for anything. Okay. Yeah, I think what is trying to do to give us this this tool to try to
get us not to be depressed, right? Not to take it on. And so let's get to that. So he said,.
He said,O world is shooting so fast that we can barely adopt Cope. And as soon as we
adopt the only ways of feeling and thinking of collapsed, and the new' beginnings are
ambiguous to the point of moral stasis. Example, David, I just learned zoo. Every week
there is some updating zoo. Oh, my God, it's so tedious, you know. The phone. Every
week's something coming the phone, the computer, something coming. iPhone, Apple.
Isn't it? Every, every six months, they have a new iPhone? And you know, oh, better
camera, better battery, better this, better, that. thing, the rapid change. And by the time
you get accustomed to one re. And I'm notorious with this. Oh, my God, what do we
need to do now? And the schools. You know what the schools and it might just be my
granddaughter's school, which is, I think, I'm not going to award. The reliance on
technology, to me, is scary. Like, the teachers, like, they cannot teach anymore. on,
teaching is a very difficult. I should know. I've been a teacher for 20 something years.
But when I see the approach to teaching, and I, you know, I'm in my 60s and I can still
remember my junior kindergarten teacher. Mrs. Barton was her name. I could still
remember where I went. It was such an old, broken down kind of dilapidated. It would
be condemnning Canada, but miss. Burton had a clash there, and you, she was such a
kind woman, Michael, what a beautiful, beautiful woman. I still remember that woman. I
wish she had lived to see me, you know, finish my PhD or something. My point being
that she cared about her student in a way, and she taught us a for Apple be for that C,
for, be for. I still remember all this stuff, right? But they were teaching you now I said,
"My granddaughter comes home and she said,What did you learn today? Oh, well,
she's great too, right? She had a free period, so we were watching TV. Okay, is that
what you do at school? So, you know, like, they're reliance on technology. You yourself
as a teacher, do you not want to do the maximum amount of work that you can do? But I
also think balance is that. So this is where I have to be very careful. One is to complain
about teaching is that the students behaviour. out of COVID. I think with without COVID,
we will have challenges in the question. Right? Because parents are busy working 20
jobs. When do you have time to socialize your children? When do you have time to sit
down with them and speak to them about their behaviour? I believe you me, I do this on
a daily basis with my virt children, and I still have to, yesterday had a big, serious
conversation with my granddaughter and said, so then shed bring me a list of the dos
and the Don' that she wouldn't do." So I said,Okay, Nanny, we will tap it up, and then
you will let me then we'll see how we can adhere to this list, right? Because of course,
you know, everything started getting taken away, and nobody wants that, not to mention
it, you know, okay, I'm taking your cousin to skating this weekend. We're going to go in
the ice, you stay home, be going swimming, you stay home. Nobody wants that stuff. So
what has happening, what Siran does is saying, we are so bogged down, we're trying to
survive. And I think a lot of people are in that boat. We have our children, and this is
why technology has become the babysitter. And I really do feel sorry sometimes
because what keeps them quiet, oh, give them the iPad, you know, if you if you want to
keep a clean house, and if you're working for jobs, you don't want to come home to an
untidy house like my house. My house is like a bottle field, because we do not give them
the technology, but then it's a constant state of, you know, whatever. So my point being
that it is very challenging at this historical juncture for everyone. It's even more
challenged for parents. And if you have one one challenge is equally as difficult, I think,
as forward. Believe you me, it's no easier than they're just difficult period. I don't know, I
think, it's not just in Catalic, because when you say to the kids, in my days, your
grandparents did this. My days is no longer apo here. My days have changed, right? It's
different. So our word has changed. The only ways of thinking of feeling and thinking of
collapse. People feel as if they cannot cope with what is happening, that they cannot
understand the meaning of their epoch for their own lives. are people don't have the
time to think like this? You see, this is why this article is such a classic. He said, Hence
they become morally insensible trying to remain altogether private individual. any
wonder that they they come to be possessed by a sense of the trap, always trap.
Anywhere you're going there, you know the line that we use is, I am so busy. It's two
line. I am busy, I am tired. I am so tired. I am so busy. I am so tired. You know, I will I will
look after myself and family, and this is really concept, you know, we want to have this
enclosure. Once I go home and I have my family is safe, that is what matters. Social
justice is not my deal. You are not eating that's your problem. Your child is missing,
that's your problem. And I, you know, you will hear a lot about my neighbourhood
because we live in a neighbourhood we' at C certain things, and I just, you know,
yesterdayterday, my neighbour was telling me, my neighbor's a guy and he's guyees are
terrible people, I'm telling you. I was boarding guy, so I knew him inside out. And I know
he's d, he's my neighbour, they are these people are so problematic. So now he comes
to me and he says, oh, my next door neighbour, and I'm laughing. I said, oh, really, that
is so awful. But I'm telling you something, I'm like a wicked human being Instead of me,
I was saying,That's good. Now you get a dose of what I get from you, right? But what it
is, is I cannot think that I want to eat for myself. I'm not to look out for my neighbour and
their children when they're on the street. And, you know, things like that. And, oh, if my
neighbor's child run on my lawn, I get upset about it. The lawn is the lawn. The children
are more important. So this is what I see happening in a neighbourhood. It's just about
me and my children and to help with other people. Anyhow, people do not only need the
skills of reason, right? You know, one thing I' to see right says is we've being inundated
with information. What they need and what they feel they need is going back to this
concept again. The quality of minds. I'm going to write you my go back to my whiteboard
again, people. Okay, so here we are. So. I'm going to take out this guy this fella here,
right? I'm going to take him out. So I'm gonna take on Joshua and his problem now, get
to. And I'm going to change a colour to we have red there. I go there, and I'm going to
go to Green. I think you guys will see green, because this is the definition I'm going to
try to, you know, we've given you all of this, but I want to be able to conceptualize it, you
know? So he says, what they need and what they're feeling is the quality of mind that
will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid
summation of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within
themselves. If it's this quality of mind, I'm going to contend, that journalists and scholars,
artists and puppets, public scientists, and editors are coming to expect of what may be
called the sociological imagination, right? So this thing, the sociological imagination,
enables its possessor to understand a larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for
the inner life, and the external career of a variety of individuals, often become. Yeah, it
enables him to take into account how individuals into the welter of their daily
experience, often becomes falsely conscious of their social position. Within that well to
the framer of modern society sought, and within that framework, the psychologies of a
variety of men and women are formulated. By such means, the personal uneasiness of
the individual is focussed upon explicit troubles and the indifference of public is
transferred into involvement for public issue. So he said, this is sea right Mills, or you
could say, What is it? says, sociological imagination, is equality of mind that allows the
individual to connect is, and I'm going to use a traditional sense here. I know that there
are many other, but just. private. Troubles. Remember, it goes back for a private. and
your tests, I would like private troubles. Sorry, guys. knives but trouble trouble is what I
like, right? A private trouble to public issues, okay? Now, this isn't just a p version of it,
you to elaborate, you have to talk about the biography, and you could say, I, and the
society, and how would you put this? I don't publication. Okay, we want to say, for
example, in order to comprehend what is happening to themselves. need to? I don't
want to use word. When is it need to connect or what was it? And he said. Okay, I'm just
I need to connect the history of their society, what is happening to them on what is
happening in the world, okay? What are the transformation? What is happening right
now? So, for example, what COVID 19, how did it impact us individually good
community, nationally, globally, right? Oh, I have to go down to another stage., but I
people. So he talk about. I said, this is the first fruit of this imagination you Admal said. It
is the idea that the individual can understand our own experience engage her own fate,
only by locating herself within her period. What is happening to you? You need to look at
it. How does it connect? You are unemployed. How does it connect to what is
happening out there? Right? Is something happening? Okay. That she can know her
own chances in life, only by becoming a careerare of those of individual, like, are
women allow free and equal access to labour markets, right? So when you're gonna
come down on yourself and say, "Oh, I' a failure, or you know, your friend, says, "Oh,
keep trying. You know, this mythical, hidden labour market?" Listen, the labour market is
terrible right now for anyone. So he said, when you developed this imagination, this way
of thinking, is literally a tool. It's a tool, but it's a tool that allows you. If you learn it, it's a
thinking, a certain way. So moving away from the personal to the public, to what is
happening in that society, right? It must be none. When you develop this a bit
imagination, it can be a process of, in many ways, it is a terrible lesson. And remember
you were saying that, how do we Casey, you were saying, how do we analyze our lives
and things like that? In many ways, a magnificent one, because then you could say, it is
not just about me. Look at the thousands of people out there that are experiencing this.
So, am I a loser, are they all a loser? These are concepts I don't like to. I don't I'm, I've
been trained differently to think differently a closet, not a closet. I have a a graduate
degree in social work too, so I practice social work. So I never see people as failure or
anything. I always tried to give them an explanation to uplift them and to give them the
support. We do not know the limits of human capacity for supreme effort are willing
degradation, for agony or glee, for pleasure of a brutality, or the sweetness of reason,
but in our time, we have come to know that the limits of human nature are fragingly
broad. We have come to know that every individual lives from one generation to the
next, in some society, that he lives out a biography, lives it out within some historical
sequence. You know, you're not Robinson Crusoe. You're not on this island by yourself.
You're living in a society. And I don't know how many students are overseas, okay? Let
me stop and say, do people need any questions? Do people have any questions or
comments, please?" Are you understanding this stuff? Because this stuff is tough, but I
think I do a good job, but it still needs to ask questions. And there's no dumb questions.
This question that you want to ask, I think maybe 15 people in the class wants to ask
that question too. So you better ask that question. And then I'm going to say, wow, what
a smart student I have. And that student will miss that compliment. Right? People, I any
questions or comments about this. Is this making any sense to you? I'm going through
my slides here, people. No question. You guys are. Aisha, how are you doing today?
Aisha, come. Let me a question, Aisha. You were brave enough to start on Aisha, you're
brilliant. I see, there goes Aisha, my brilliant student., I don't have a questionable. I
understood everything, but I have a question if it's possible to have like slide shows or
something because it was a little bit hard for me to follow. Actually, I don't have slide
shows. or anything like maybe like subtopics that we can have before class. I'm just
This is an article, but she read Mrs. Scratshaw article, and then the rest of it is a
textbook, right? And then a textbook, it has, what's the objective of that chapter? So that
would be a slid showow. I'm very sorry because that's what I. Yeah. I'm not, I'm sorry.
I'm definitely not somebody who could read from. I will read, like, you know, you know,
you have the, what do you have? PowerPoint slides? Yeah. And then I give it to you
guys and then you come in class and I read it, and I said, okay, lecture is over. Okay.
Thank you. I definitely want to interact with my readings and I do with them. I do have
some things I have in my own part. Like, this is in Powerpoint for myself, right? Not
PowerPoint. Like, I have it in summaries and stuff like that. And a diagram, I's supposed
to be helpful. So I really do apologize. I said, I just, you know, it's additional work that I
don't think it hours I'm supposed to work would not allow me to do that. But I think what I
do here using the whiteboard and sil should compensate for all of them. Thank you?
Yeah. Danata.. Oh, thank you so much. First of all, I'm very sorry. I'm among the was
not able to read because of some issue, it was not on my hand. But I appreciate the
director, because it just gives me the three-year understanding of what is happening to
us, especially for me, because we are living in the busy world. We are living in the busy
world where we end up, like, we're using these two words. You mentioned, I'm busy, I'm
tired. Even to my own children, which I have to take care of. So I really appreciate this
course, because it is just opening my mind that I have now to be careful, my own
experience and the connecting to what I'm seeing in the society, everything is changing,
just in a second. You don't know how you can explain. I have only five years here in
Canada, but everything changed around me. And at the oddest sudden, I find myself
like, I'm in the middle of trouble, of credits, of challenging, which I don't even know how
to go, out of this. To order term I'm so happy that Tere, I have joined this, where I can
now understand and start now to connect my web, my experience to the world, to the
society, to the public in order for me to take this very decision for my future. So that's to
appreciate. Thank you. Well, this is again, you remember what I'm saying. It's
happening to you. You're in your little. You know your little room and then sometimes
you move beyond that room, you go to the grocery store, you come back home. Oh, my
God, I don't have a job. The only person in the whole wide world. Who wants your worst
critique, people? Success, who's your worst critique? Iset yourself, perhaps. Yourself?
And you have no expectation for yourself, but yet you can put yourself down every
single day. Something is wrong with you. You did that in a test. You don't say, you don't
want me? I't I'm not saying to give excuses. I am not saying to give excuses. I'm saying,
sometimes look at the reality. Are you in school? Are you working full time? Do you have
children? Do you have parents to take care of? Do you have I had a mother who was
terminally I when I was writing my PhD. You know, when she calls, I drop everything.
You know, I When people say to me, "Oh, do you want to do this?" I said, "I can't do that
man I spend weekend with my parents, like my mom, I like to hang out with her," you
know, so it pulled in every different direction. What I wanted to do on what my parents
required me to do for them, was completely different. I wanted to go overseas and
studies. But I can't say to them, I didn't want to say to her, you know, Ma, to hell with
you. I am going to the UK and study. I couldn't do that. My responsibility was her. Why?
For nine months she carried me, she didn't complain. And after those nine months, how
many more years she carried me? So any ambition that I had when I unf looking after
my parents, that you know, but I was able to rationalize this. So we live in this world
where we keep thinking, I am the worst person, or something happened like something
you, you know, let's say you did something. You're not the only person who ever did
something like that, but try to boost it. He said, okay, I'm sorry. Reflect on it and say, I'm
not gonna do this again, right? And don't go talk to a friend who says, "Oh, well, you
shouldn't do that." You know what I always say to my friend? So, who cares? You did
that, right? I do that all the time because people are already feeling terrible. And you
know, sometimes when you do something, everybody feel that it felt the same way, they
wanted to do that, but when you do it, they start to condemn you. I don't think that's that.
I always like to stay with you on the dogs or to marginalize. I'm always there because
I'm a radical, all right? No, I see my granddaughter doing this. She's a really, she's a
social justice warrior. She's always telling me about it. I'm saying to her, "Be careful,
okay? So I want her to go learn boxing because I'm scared that she'll be beaten up. So I
think she need to protect herself. Casey. Anyway, but you guys need to you need to look
at yourself and say, "You know what we say it is, "Oh, you're young, you have your
whole life ahead of you." But you guys, I don't want to be you guys. With all your
technology and all your advance men, I went to school barefoot. You guys have how
many pairs of shoes? Hmm? I have one outfit that I wore on a good day. How many,
how many outfits do you? You see my grandchildren when I look at them, I said, "My
God, what a difference it? So, it'ss but I wouldn't want to be you guys, because you
know what? The pressure is coming from all sides. It's not just education. It's what you
know, the social media pressure on you, you don't have the ideal body tact. You don't
have the colour, you don't have the hair. You need to ask yourself, is there one ideal
body type in the world? And hopefully we'll talk a lot about this in the class,ure?
Because women in particular, on success, I know, I'm really happy with I see young men
in my class. I George, all of you guys. When I speak, I I'm a bit slighted towards the
female gender, but I also will speak about. You guys are also bad on yourself, you know,
and there's a lot of cosmetic surgery and ideal body type for men that has put pressure
on you. You know, yourself supposed to be ripped and you're like, what do you call this
thing here? " what is it, a scrubbing board or something? Your, your belly is supposed to
be this way? that stuff. Like, it's a lot of pressure, and you can't need that. So do not try
to just tell yourself, "This is who I am." The first thing starts with self love." You know?
And this is why sometimes religion become important, sometimes it's not. My religion is
Hindu. They speak a lot about that consciousness of who and what you are. It has
served me a great deal. Casey, you had your hand up, my dear, and I'm so sorry. I've
been very patient with me. Oh, not at all. Um, I appreciate the conversation. I think the
quality of mind, that concept is a fluid concept, right? This article Mills was, what, 1965
or something like that. Of course, we apply it to our lives now, or we can, and it's helpful.
But how we're connecting to all of this is rapidly changing as we've mentioned, so it's
maybe like a zooming in and a zooming out. When am I zoomed in to myself as the
individual, when do I zoom out to the collective and see all these things and understand
and maybe build more compassion for myself or whatever it is that's actually helpful
instead of harming myself. And then when do I need to zoom in and do the things and
be worried about myself? That's how I make sense of it. Yeah. And this is why it's a
classic. Every single course I teach, they have to learn this. Because if I can shift you a
way of thinking and only the sociological imagination, you say, you know, I can't bother
to this lady. She's so blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I learned the sociological. and then
you got your money worth at me. I've done my job. Because I think it is such a powerful
concept, right? But, you know, he said, you could understand who you are, and as you
have situated yourself, you got a spring boat out now. What are all these things coming
in on me, and affecting me? It's not just affecting you physically, psychologically,
mentally, emotionally, financially. You know, it's all coming in on you, and that's how you
feel trapped. But you need to look, this is zooming out that you're talking about. You
need to look and see what is happening in this society. Why are we all feeling trouble
right now? I kind of look for that concept. I think it's social anxiety, does become a real
issue that people are just looking around and seeing what is happening, right? And
you're in a constant state of anxiety, and I've never experienced that until now, I'm telling
you. So, you know, and you know, I think I have a pretty good, I don't, I'm not a
financially rich person, but I think emotionally, you know, I have my children, my
grandchildren. I love them to death. I have a very good life like that, but you think about
the future, you think about the present, about it builds that has to be paid, I impacts you.
Right? And so you need to sometimes you need to cut yourself some slacks. That's
what you need to do. It goes for all of you. And I'm not lecturing you here in terms of
saying, I'm better or I'm your mother or something. It's just naturalur. Like, I thought of
course and gender, health, I think I told you guys last year. And at the ending of the
class, I received stacks of things from students telling me how much there's no start to
look after their health because they were taking it from around. Young women, your
health is important. You go on and they tell you it's just the menstrual period, say, effin.
That's not what it is, I am feeling pain. This is beyond what I usually do. I need to see
some I need to get these the following tests, done. Right? This is what I learned from
my daughter. This is some them, you know, like some again, you see children. I teach
her the social science. She teaches me a medical part of everything. So we constantly
have this discussion about that. Anyway, so let's go back to this. So when you develop
this imagination, it you said, right? It's sweetness, a button our timeongue, we have
come to know it anyway, I did that. It was me noted as all of us make a contribution to
society. Even if you are at home, don't tell yourself that you know what? What Who am
I? What can I do? You know, people say, "Oh, you're only one person." I would say to
them, "One person, you can see someone and be kind to them on that day. You don't
know if that's a one per time somebody in the last month be kind to that person. You can
make a difference. I don't like this one. people say to me, "Oh, but only one person,
what can you. You can do a hell of a lot. Trust me and that.You can do this morning, I
was coming back. I saw this lady struggling with her bag, and I said, "You need a ride."
She said, "Yes." I said, ". She said a library." I said,Oh, my. I said, "Jump in pop in the
car here. I'll give you a ride, right? I'll just come in back." And I took her and she said,
"Oh, thank you, thank you, I missed the bus, I have this meeting, blah, blah, blah. It was
a senior lady too, and had a little bag looked heavy, right? Now, for me, that was you as
a Hindu. That is meat chalking up my good deed dry, because I'm a bad person. I said I
like when my with the badness, I don't want it to be even to the goodness. I like the
goodness to be a hair and the badness, to be down here. But something to badness is
here, you know, kind of. So I accept the God, you know, look today, I did a really good
deed, so you better chop me up there. I should be ahead inics to the game here, right?
So Ed was you know, that all of us make a contribution to society. However minute it is.
It might not b social media. You are not Amal Clooney. You're not, Princess Catherine.
Like, if she lift her finger too hard, it's a big thing. You know, you ever notice that these
people just have to do a tweak of something and it becomes like, whole, you know, I've
talked to you guys about the concept of motherhood. First centuries, women have been
giving births. My grandmother give birth to 14, my great grandmother give birth to 22.
Now, if Princess Catherine or somebody famous, give births because like, "Oh, my God,
motherhood has never existed before. You can all make contribution. It's just that it's not
a social media. So you need to look at your small contribution, and you need to say, "I
have done something." Anyhow, so it must be noted that all of us make a country.
However, minute society impacts us that we impact society. You know, that small
gesture. You do not know. But the fact of this living, he contributes, however, minutely to
the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by
society and by historically pushed and sh. Despite your " I am busy, you know, I do not
have time. blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If you just want a stock some time then say, you
know, I can actually do something. I could actually spend some more time with the
children if I just do some of this or things like that. These are sac. You know, life is a
constant negotiation, too, right? You with what is around you. But that doesn't mean you
should not be looking at yourself and also protecting yourself and helping yourself to
survive. You know, you know, take some time off. It was 20 minutes. Go just say, you
know what? Right now, I just, mind favourite thing is tea and a piece of cake, which is
really bad for me at my age, because I never used to have that. But excuse how I say it
that it kiss,Oh, please, can you go? And I said, you can have a cup of tea, but not any
anything. She said, then there's no point in having in a cup of tea, right? So they know
me, I'm notorious and I like to cheat too, and I'll steal it, and then I'll go to eat more
again. Anyhow. So the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and
biography and the relation between the two within society. So when I was struggling
here to put that piece, you see, it says, this this part here, let me oh, I could copy and
face, people. I was so, you know, my student, you guys are the best man. You give me,
let me put it right here. Here. Let me see I remember this control g. Ah, look at that. I
deserve a second PhD just for doing that. Okay Okay, people. So, it's en us a grass
history of biography. This would be, like, this this's private chocolate to public issues.
Now, I've given you all of that, but I'm give you a concrete example of this. What are we
doing at 10:52? We still have time, right? no social study that does not come back to the
problems of biography, yourself, autobiographical, of history and of theirsections within
a society has completed its intellectual journey. If we cannot relate what we are teaching
to you, and then expand. We're not doing a good job. And this is why the sociological
imagination is such a powerful concept, okay? So at any he also said to you, "And I'm
gonna this such as the beginning of the explanation, we have a lot of time, so. He said,
you know, he asked three questions. And when you're reading next week's article on
intersectionality, I will ask you to remember this article and ask yourself, how will these
two be connected? Because I will connect them for you. So these are the three
questions, but those are you who did the reading. Did you read the three questions? Do
you remember he asked you three questions in the reading, people? I think the people
in the lecture in the three and four are completely sleeping. I hope you guys, you know,
you wake up occasionally, you and I'm stay important things. And I would appreciate
that. What are the sweet questions for those of you who read the artic? Do you
remember? Maybe do not remember that's fine, too. ask. Is it as art as? It's as. It's a
beautiful name. Thank you. Okay, asa. Oh, I don' remember the first question I was
regarding, like, what is it overall structure of this society? Like, yeah. That's very good.
Very good. I want those three questions also to guide you, okay? Christiana? Um, I'm. I
wanted to take a show, but is what does this society where is society stand in human
history? Yeah, Christian. And when you read, as I tell you, please take notes. That's
exactly right. So you' give me, Asra has given me the first question, you give me the
second question, but I'm going to go through this question with you guys. Then I want to
give you I'm not a diagram, okay? What varieties of men and women? So let's go back
to this. And you know, if you think about a US right now, what varieties of men and
women is running the U.S. Jeff Bezo, Zuckerberg, Trump,.. Gates, Wren Buffett has a
bit of a conscience side there. Right? And all the otherought to bill inaire. Elon Musk.
Oh, that's a guy. You see, I know I miss somebody. That guy's gonna have some deep
psychological problem, and he wouldn't be able to use his sociological imagination and
maybe be connection, because all he sees is Doll signs. Anyway, I should be careful
like that. I don't mean that to be disrespectful. Yeah, like, you know, like think about it.
So he said, the first qu, what is the structure of this particular society as a whole? What
are essential components, and how are they related to one another? How does it differ
from other varieties of social orders? Within it, what is the meaning of any particular
feature for its continuance for its change? Now, we live in a highly developed society,
we have a welfare state, right, despite having a welfare state, let's not think that the
money that we're going to get, it's like it make us live in a lap of luxury. I think monthly to
welfare check is $700 and I Ontario you, from what I hear to one room is actually $900.
So by the time you're die, you still owe your landlord. So what are you supposed to do,
right? In the U.S., there's such a level of poverty. that we think about poverty as in India
and Guyana, and you know, Guyana boosts, you, I don't know if there's any people who
know about. You know, Ghana's in South America, it's, this little country, it's English
speaking. It was British before. They discovered oil in Guyana. And that's the devil,
that's a living flowing devil in human soul, I think. Now, in Guyana now, they've
discovered all the soul, they're making so much money, and yet the poverty is
excruciate. The women, what they go through, every single week, every single month,
or no, let me say a week, maybe a month, a woman is killing Ghana because of intimate
partner of Harland. You know that? They own you outright, and if you leave them, it is
their right to come and kill you. And. or pattern from heterosexual relationships. What
gives you the right to think that a woman is your property? But the society, this is
something that happened for centuries and it continues to happen up to now, you know?
And I think sometimes, you know, one of the, again, this is my my an analysis and being
someone from a very traditional society, I sometimes see where my friends are
socializing their sons. And I said, "You see, you talked about how your mother in law
treated you. And when you treat when you grow your son like, this to treat women like
just a piece of property, to be abused and discarded, what are you telling them? If we do
not socialize our children differently, especially mothers and sons, if you do not tell your
son, that's I say, my son is a good boy. He's got his challenges, you, when he and I
heard he was getting a daughter, I prayed and I heard I didn't have the sex of the
challenge yet. I said,Oh, God, please let a dear boy, please let him be a boy. If you
really know how much his mother was praying, I think he would dislike me. When she's
born or I call him, I say, "Son, your world has changed right now." But my grandson
born,, my grandson' is a cutey pie. I love him to death. But I said to him, "Now you have
a daughter. It's a different world right now. It's all about protection, you know? And it will
be something I would tell him for the rest of his life. I said, "Now you will know why I am
like this, with your sister." And you think, "Oh, you know, pe nut always say, "Oh, you
don't love me? No, I love you, but I know you're not your sister." So this is why this is the
gender, if we as mothers, do not teach or young men how to treat women, then do we
expect a society to do that? So we could go back with this sociological imagination.
Particularly when you come from traditional societies, black d society, you know, things
like that. Anyway, Howard, there was how does any particular feature rear examine and
affect and how is it affected by the historical period in which it moves, the technology?
There's not a lot of changing. We do see women in positions of power, right? But how
many of you have heard of Cheryl Sandberg? There's. I don't know, you read
everything. I give you one version of it, but you need to by no means, am I an expert in
anything. You see, Sh Sandberg like wrote a book called Lean in, and I was teaching
feminism at the time, too. It and I say to people, Shirl Sandberg is selling to lean in.
Does she know what race does? Does she know what class? Does she know a gender?
Does she know what all of this? So, now there's a book I called Careless People. I think
it's Careless people that says, she was saying to lean in, but she was not giving her
female employee, paternity leave, or things like that, because, how are we going to lean
in? If you can't be human to other women, but you are out there, the bulk of women who
are successful. I always say to my kids, there is a lot of skeleton in that closet, because
humanity doesn't get you promotion. Trust me and that score. And I know that more
than most people. So at this period, what our essential feature, how does it differ from
other period? What are its characteristics way of history making? The third question,
what varieties of men and women? Now, prevailing in society and in this spirit, what this
is you guys. You cannot live without your technology, but your technology is having a
mental health issue. In the next five to ten years, I think there's going to be such a high
level of suicide. Depression is already a global phenomenena, isolation, loneliness,
right? We live in a society, you know, we look outside, there's nobody. right? I wouldn't
Diana now, you look outside, there's no children do not play outside anymore. Why?
Because they're all in there. Is that what we were saying? You are social beings, okay?
In what way are they selected and formmed liberated and repressed, may sensitive and
blunted, okay? So men and women, how do we do we socialize them? And what do we
tell them? What kinds of human nature are revealed in the conduct and character we
observe in this society and in this period? And what is it meaning for human nature of
each and every feature of the society we are examined in?, you know, any question that
is social analysis surv acts, that is, the power of the state, the minor literary mood, what
is a family, why princes? These are question that you, what kind of society do we live
in? What do we see the Canadian state do we? Right? What is the role? You keep
talking about housing, homelessness, housing. I will tell you, you know, how do they
solve the problem with homelessness? They will put another billion dollars to study
homelessness. I think they haven't studied it enough, right? Now they have these
prefabricated little houses, finder place and build it. We have so many buildings that are
vacant. Convert them into small apartments, so we can deal with some of these issues.
Make housing affordable. So everyone could afford to live in, you know, not hardly have
some security. Houses right now. You know, I don't know, many or you might not
remember, the good old days of houses where they were 200 and something thousand
That's what we put on how it at. My house now is probably 1. something. Who can't
afford us? And if people say to me, "Oh, you're making a lot of money. They said.My
issue is not the man. My issue is how can my children?" And lot of people's children
afford to buy a house. It's not just about me making money. It's about what we're only
going to live on, a tree, so wintertime, what are they going to do? Put a tent? Or
something like that? Anyhow, so all these questions are questioned that the social
scientist attempts to answer, right? So our questions in epitem raised by mind
possessing the sociological imagination, the sociological imagination is a quality of mind
that allows the possessor to shift from one perspective to another, from the political to
the psychological politicality, this is what they're doing. psychologically, how does it
affect you, how it affects it? And it's not just you. It never pops to one person. We're
gonna go through that example just now. From examining of a single family to a
comparative ass assessment of the national budget of the world. Think about it. How
much money you spend put in defence funding. Okay, from the theological school to the
military establishment, from consideration of an oil industry to studies of contemporary
poetry. It is a capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformation.
This is what a sociological imagination allows you to the most intimate features of the
human self and soed the relation between the two. its use, there is always an urge to
know the social and historical meaning of the individual in the society and in the period
in which she has her quality and her being, right? So you know, where are you up? That
is in brief, why, it is by means of the sociological imagination that men and women now
hope to grasp what is going on in the world and to understand what is happening in
themselves. As minute points of the intersection of biography and history written
socciety. So I'm going to go back to May. I think you guys get this whiteboard, do you
know? Let me see. whiteboard, new whiteboard. White boat classic. So I'm gonna put
this here now. What I just copied. And this is coming downly from the article. Some of
the ex example I want to be given you now will not come narative from the article. Okay,
okay. So. And then he went on in the article, how do you feel when you have acquired a
sociological matter? It is you. By its use, people whose mentality is shept only a series
of limited orbits. Or then come to feel as if suddenly awakening a house with which they
had only supposed themselves to be familiar. So now you're living in a society, if you
start to look at it, I think it's a that just said. It started to put things into perspective, right?
Correctly or incorrectly. They often come to the feel that they can now provide
themselves with an adequate summation, cohesive assessment, comprehensive
orientation of what is happening to them. Or a decision that once appeared some now
seems to them product of a mind unaccountably dense. Their capacity for astonishment
is made lively again. They acquire a new way of thinking, they experience a trans
evaluation of values in a world by their reflection about their insensibility, they realize the
cultural meaning of social sciences. I did go through social sciences with you guys. Did I
go through that on Monday? I did not. Oh, we're gonna go through equity and equality
anyway. Okay, so, and he said, probably the most fruitful distinction with which the
sociological imagination work is between the personal trouble of the milu and the public
issue of the social structure. Okay. And I'll put that statement there for you guys, too.
Okay, let's go up here and we can go like that. Guys, oh, okay, I'm going to have to.
Sometimes, I have to apologize to guys it. I'm not a lecturer, who knows how to keep
times, unless you keep time, I'm going to be in trouble. And Anna and other members of
the teaching team, feel free anytime after 10 15, 11 15 to leave, because sometimes,
you know, I know you have to go get a cup of tea, you use the bathroom, things like
that. And I go to to. I have apologize. I will try to be good, but I'm lying if I tell you that.
I'm a hypocrite, as much as I'm trying to be good, when I'm lecturing, I, you know,
Anyhow. So the first no trouble becomes the public issue, right? Our trouble is a private
matter, cherished by an individual are felt by her to be threatened, but a public issue,
right?. Okay, let me give you the distinction that he's made here. Let me see what else I
have here. Okay, at any given example, I'm going to give you these two sets of stock
hair. And this will come in directly up to C redm. When I ask you this question, I don't
want you to give me that. I think we might have to use a different, I go to the next place.
Controling. Okay, so I hope he goes to the next page. Let me see. This sticks page.
Okay, let me put it back here too, because I don't think you can see it there. See, this is
a very chalkboard. It's such an amazing thing. Okay. So, this is what I'm gonna go to our
next page after this, because you guys this is So then he went on to talk about, for
example. So let me give you an example that he used. And when you're going to be
doing your desk, I would actually using your sociological imagination, you know, why are
women's rights human rights. And your sociological imagination intersectionality,
women's rights as human rights, you need to answer that question. So you're going to
have to use an example. Not my exampling class, because I'm going to be talking to
you about an unemployment unemployment, right? But you how many otherosocial
issues are there that you could use as an example, demonstrate why women's rights
are human rights? and you will be given the conceptual frame of reference to use. So
let's talk about our employment insurance, and I'm going to go here. No, let's go back to
Joshua. Joshua is an employee. Right? And Joshua is trying every single day, but you
is Joshua neighbour, you see him come out every morning with his cigarette. you know,
and a cup of coffee, and you said,Look at this guy. He's got no ambition in life. All he
does there is sit there, "What you doing know is poor Joshua is every single day looking
for employment. After the first week you are all there's a skip in your step, second week,
third week, four After the six months. Jeez, you're just human. You're gonna get like you
still want to find an employment, but you're so beaten down by that that goal, that work
to go and find employment, how much rejection can you actually happen? Take, right?
So, Joshhua' unemployed, and you know, that's why Joshua's thinking,, it is really a
problem at me. It's my problem. Yeah. So, he says,You know what? It's my problem.
Unemployment, it's personal. What he's not looking at, is, what is the labour market
about? Right? We have and get ready to draw a couple of les so I could do them. I
might to use all of it. I do is more to this next week. I will. Oh, I can I'll call. I can't cross
alliance like this. Okay, I guess I could come there.. Are people'm not doing this
because I'm wasting time. I'm doing this because I don't know if I find these diagrams
are very helpful, or at least my student and some students at set the department, and
she wastes a lot of time using the whiteboard. Listen, I don't need to waste. I can talk.
But I just wanted to demonstrate this, okay? So what is the labour market like, you
know? What is happening in a society? in society.. How educated how computer
literate.. I think this is all agent, Danielle. Yeah? Um, where does he live? That makes a
huge difference. Does he live in the metropolis? Does he live in a city? Does he live in a