Can Radical Hope Save Us from Despair in a Fractured World? with Jamie Wheal

Either we create a rational mysticism for the twenty first century Or we end up with national mysticism. And that's the Nazis, the third Reich, right? That's Jews will not replace us Charlottesville. That is a lot of hate filled ethnonationalism. So the bottom line is in that meaning crisis If you don't create A rock in the middle of that.

Ocean. Everyone just goes wooshing past the moderate middle. And the first place they find community, the first place they get seen is in increasingly fundamentalist and extreme versions. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thought we have. Quotes like Garbage in, garbage out, or You Are What You Think ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-pity. Jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.

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