For years, Cubans carefully parroted state slogans to journalists. Not anymore. Will Grant says people are now brazenly speaking out — and some are openly saying they hope Trump intervenes and takes over, not out of love for Trump, but out of desperation for any change at all.
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Tommy presses Grant on measurable health impacts. Grant acknowledges the Cuban state controls statistics, making reliable data impossible, but describes what he witnessed: hospitals accepting only emergencies during blackouts, a maternity ward running on a large generator for basics, and a pregnant woman he followed whose baby was born in difficult but survivable circumstances thanks to hard-working individual staff. The deeper revelation is about public opinion. For years, Cubans carefully parroted state slogans when journalists put microphones in front of them. Not anymore. Grant describes hearing ordinary Cubans say brazenly that they hope Trump comes in and takes over — not because they love Trump, but because they want whatever this is to be over and want a dignified life for their children. The division is real: old-school revolutionaries are furiously anti-Trump and anti-Rubio; a significant portion of ordinary Cubans have simply lost their fear and want any exit from the current situation [1] — Will Grant "For years, Cubans carefully parroted state slogans to journalists. Not anymore. Will Grant says people are now brazenly speaking out — and …" 1:06:30 .
CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Havana just days after the Venezuela operation, in which 34 Cuban security officers were killed by Delta Force in seconds. Will Grant showed news of Ratcliffe's visit to a Cuban official and watched him physically turn gray. The message, Grant believes, was simple: you are no military match for us.
Most people confuse things they value instrumentally (because they get them other things) with things they value intrinsically (for their own sake). Greenberg's friend stayed in a miserable relationship for years because she was living by her parents' values, not her own — the values map made the mismatch instantly visible.
Jungian analyst James Hollis distills a good life to four things: shut up (have gratitude, stop whining), suit up (prepare yourself to fulfill a role), show up (do the actual work in service of others), and daily get out of stimulus-response to ask what your deeper wish actually is. The whole landscape of self-help slots into just these four bins.
Toward the end of their 20s, many men discover that all the strategies that earned them recognition and success have stopped working. It's a second adolescence — more important than the first — where the question shifts from 'how do I play the game?' to 'who do I actually want to become?' Most people going through it look fragile from the outside. They're actually building a foundation.
Boys are told from childhood not to cry, not to feel, not to be weak — but anger gets a pass. The result: a generation of men who reroute every emotion, including sadness and fear, through the only acceptable channel. Emotional avoidance isn't toughness, it's misdirected sensitivity.
Men need a 'bank account' of masculine status — muscle, money, success — before society grants them permission to express vulnerability. Chris Bumstead can cry at the Olympia and get celebrated. A struggling nobody doing the same thing gets contempt. This creates a tragic paradox where the men who most need emotional support get the least of it.
Emotional sensitivity isn't a defect — it's a high-resolution scanner for human experience. Highly sensitive people pick up body language, tone, and unspoken tension that others miss entirely. In the right environment, that's not a liability. It's a superpower.
Her supervisor told her she was too emotional for the pediatric ICU. So she asked herself: 'What area of medicine can I cry in?' That question led her to psychiatry. Finding the environment that holds your emotional sensitivity isn't retreat — it's strategy.
For someone with RSD, ghosting isn't ambiguity — it's a self-verdict. Their brain doesn't read 'this relationship ended,' it reads 'I am the reason this failed.' No closure means the brain fills the gap with evidence of personal insufficiency, and it keeps filling indefinitely.
More freedom doesn't produce more happiness — it produces more anxiety. Kierkegaard identified this 180 years ago: the more options you have, the more you feel the 'dizziness of freedom,' a paralytic unease at having to choose any single one. The freest generation in history is, by his prediction, exactly the most anxious.
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