Hard Truth and a Big Hug
Challenging and compassionate talks about the state of the world, the lies we often celebrate about how we got here, and what we might try next. (Because only truth can empower the caring and intelligent)
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Episode 35: Lost and Found and Lost Again
Hello my dear friends. Here’s a big, challenging but loving idea I’ve been working on for awhile. It comes from asking the question – why has this century been so full of disappointment, frustration …
01:24:10 |
Sun 18 Dec 2022
Episode 34: Sky Pie and Meadow Muffins
So you say you want to change the world...Rebellion isn’t new at all, but we’ve been lying about old rebellions for so long now, that we have almost forgotten what the real thing looks sounds and fee…
01:15:00 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Episode 33: Memory is just about illegal
What do we need memory and free speech for? Why is it crucial that we are allowed to offend the powerful? Because they are trying to get us all killed with war and ecological collapse, and citizens…
01:10:09 |
Sun 01 May 2022
Episode 32: Not Your Daddy
Hello folks - time for some full-strength politics once again!It is such a strange moment right now – I’d really like to be able to link directly to my most passionate friends on the right, middle an…
01:13:36 |
Wed 02 Feb 2022
Episode 31: The Medium and the Big Mess
We talk (and nowadays argue) quite a lot about what we use computers for, but we don't so often think about what they are, and how we are changed by using them. I think there are hopeful clues to po…
00:57:21 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
Episode 30: Patriots and Revolutionaries
Hello my friends! Politics is an especially scary subject in this insanely polarized moment. Very serious stuff, the consequences of which will stay with us a whole lot longer than this fearful cri…
01:01:30 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Episode 29: Pulling Out In Time
Hello my friends – time for a podcast once again. Afghanistan is the subject of the hour – but I haven’t heard a single word said yet, which reflects context or memory. Never in my own living memory …
00:56:52 |
Sat 04 Sep 2021
Episode 28: Disobedience
Who is a rebel – what is the system? What is oppressive conformity, and what is heroic resistance? Where is corruption? Who and what holds real power? When is knowledge dangerous, who gets to decide?…
01:06:53 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Episode 27: Challenging Evolution
Nowadays, we talk awfully excitedly about our precise cultural moment, but hardly at all about how we got here. Most generations mythologize their contributions, and try their best to hide their fau…
00:54:59 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Episode 26: Them's Fightin' Words
Hello friends - so much of what we hear is furious and righteous hard polarity nowadays, I thought this would be a good time to talk about some of the many ways we misunderstand each other and the wo…
01:08:55 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Episode 25: The Snowflake-Fascist Translating Dictionary
What with shrill tribalism and a maelstrom of finger-pointing theories, the one thing that we all seem to share today is an irrational and barely controllable fury. The theories and targets vary, bu…
01:11:18 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Episode 24: Apple Pie and Cyanide
Tempers are high, and meanings have never been so confused – good and bad all mixed together. But it is always important for us to ask - How big is the difference between intentions and outcomes?
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01:15:20 |
Sun 28 Mar 2021
Episode 22: Give 'em what for and how
Podcast time again - and once again my title is a play on words, rather than any sort of an ornery sentiment. I come bearing practical hope of all kinds of victory, including the expansion of compas…
00:49:10 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
Episode 21: A Liberal Who Just Got Mugged
My friends, this one is a bit of a sh1t kicker – I apologize and you’re welcome in advance.
I have a ton of friends on the left who are disillusioned, and I know others in the middle and on the cons…
00:54:30 |
Sat 30 Jan 2021
Episode 20: Anarchy and the Nuclear Option
It is kind of amazing how many lies are told nowadays, and how much harm comes from the way we so easily believe them. There are a lot of different ways to oppose this, but most of what we hear abou…
00:40:41 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
Episode 19: The Full Package
All world-craziness aside, this is the holiday season, so for this episode I thought I would look at hope – and not in some feel-good ‘wishingist’ way. I mean the sort of sensible rigorous and ratio…
00:37:56 |
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Episode 18: Nature and Nurture and Fools and Horses
Have you ever actually sat down and read Leviticus, from start to finish? The other day I was thinking hard about how to carefully describe some of the serious problems of reason and compassion in t…
00:39:34 |
Sat 05 Dec 2020
Un-Doomed
How do we create a basis for genuine hope?
Magical thinking is fun – good enough for poetry and rock concerts, but vastly insufficient for the sort of sustained social transformations so many belie…
00:29:31 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
Didn't Rome Deserve It, Though?
Hello my friends! I am sorry to have been silent so long. I have been trying (as I explain within) but like everyone else, I am finding many things more of a struggle than usual lately.
This one …
00:34:59 |
Fri 18 Sep 2020
All In
This is a moment of high passion and righteous calls for justice. Good time also to think about the history of advances in rights, and the outcomes of previous movements – so we can incorporate less…
00:30:20 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
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