The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine.
you wrote about your education. You return to that material in “The Age of Insecurity,” starting with your mother’s time at a Canadian experimental school called Carcross in the nineteen-seventies. Students helped run the place, along with teachers and parents—which meant cooking and cleaning, but also shaping the curriculum.
I would occasionally try school. I did want to make friends, so I would go to school. But it gave me a real outsider’s perspective. Because I was, like, What is school? Why is it set up this way? Why do we have to sit at our desks every day? Why do I have to ask before I go to the bathroom? Aren’t I the one who knows if I need to go to the bathroom? It was just such a contrast with what my home life was like. And I think unschooling was an incredible gift.
The other big thing for the unschooling stuff is, as I write in the book, I went to high school in Athens, Georgia, and I couldn’t help but acknowledge the incredible social disparities. Some kids were only being fed at school. There were also incredible racial disparities—I went to a majority-Black school in Georgia, and it was mostly white kids in the gifted program. And I think it did get me thinking about who can unschool.
I try in my writing and in my films to give people a taste of curiosity. Some people write poems that are supposed to move you and make you feel wistful, and some films are funny or scary or whatever. I’m always going after the experience of epiphany—to give people a glimpse of that intellectual pleasure that I think we’re really hungry for.
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