The system we live inside didn’t emerge naturally.
It began as a story—and that story was powerful enough to become a Constitution, a government, and an entire way of life.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs traces how a specific worldview held by the founding fathers became law, how that law shaped institutions, and how those institutions solidified into what we now call “the system.” This includes the intentional exclusion of women, Indigenous people, enslaved Africans, and immigrants—especially those who were not white or Protestant—from full humanity and belonging.

By understanding how a story became enforceable reality, we reclaim something essential: the knowledge that systems are not destiny. They are narratives that can be revised.

The script we’ve all been asked to live by didn’t come from nature, destiny, or accident.

It was written—by specific men, at a specific moment in history, trying to protect their own power.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs traces the origins of the system back to the founding of the United States, exploring how fear, insecurity, and a desire to maintain hierarchy shaped the rules we still live with today. This isn’t about villainizing the past—it’s about understanding it clearly enough to loosen its grip on the present.

Because once you see that the system was built from fear, it stops looking inevitable—and starts looking changeable.

So much of what we accept as “just the way things are” is actually a script—one written long before we arrived, and one we were never meant to question.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs introduces the idea of the script: the invisible story that tells us who to be, who to admire, who should lead, and who should comply. When we learn to see the system as a script rather than truth, its fragility becomes clear—and so does our power to imagine something new.

Because anything written can be rewritten.

This conversation invites you to notice the lines you were handed, question their authority, and begin considering what it might mean to author your own life.