"[low-intensity struggles] refers to those who have benefited the most and still enjoy the protections that modernity offers, as they fight to change things within or beyond modernity. If you have the time, energy, and literacy necessary to read this [website], you fit this category. This means that, despite our transgressions and rebellions and our ideals of revolution, our struggles do not structurally jeopardize our survival: we have a choice to show up or not, to become visible or not, to be arrested or not, to take risks or not. Since we already have access to a level of social welfare secured for us, these choices tend not to fundamentally threaten our safety.
In contrast, those involved in high-intensity struggle mostly won’t have access to such choices. These are communities whose lives subsidize the comforts and securities that we enjoy. Some people in high-intensity (and high-risk, high-stakes) struggles are fighting to be part of modernity. Others are fighting for the possibility of a different existence. Everyone reproduces, to different extents, modernity’s violence (no one is off the hook). This is complex and complicated, and these terms are not mobilized to create hierarchies of worth of struggles or peoples, but to mark important differences in terms of sensibilities, vulnerabilities, sacrifices, types of labor, workloads, and sense of time and urgency."
If this [book/website] was written for those in high-intensity struggle, it would be very different in terms of topics, tone, and choice of stories and words. It probably would not exist as a [book/website], but take the form of live practices, including land-based practices, rituals, and modes of silence and conversation. It is virtually impossible to write a [book/website] that would work in addressing both audiences in high- and low-intensity struggles. In this sense, there is no universal language or sensibility that could cut across communities. What makes for an optimal collaborative learning experience for those in low-intensity struggle will likely be triggering and emotionally taxing for those in high-intensity struggle and vice versa. Each requires a different mode of engagement."