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37. The logic of sameness

February 17, 2023 Leave a Comment

Transcript There’s a poison seeping through America’s veins. It’s a poison that Germany knew in the 1930s and that other countries are struggling with now as well. It’s the poison of authoritarianism. Florida has passed laws to limit teaching about certain topics in schools—racism, African American history, gender identity, sexual orientation. The laws are worded…  Read More…

Tagged With: authoritarianism, authority, conformity, democracy, diversity, education, evolution, free speech, hierarchy, intolerance, logic of authoritarianism, multiculturalism, obedience, persecution, Roman Empire, Roman piety

 

34. Facing the past

July 8, 2022

Transcript So I’d like to take a lesson today from the Aymara people. The Aymara are an Indigenous group from the Andes who have lived and farmed on the high plains for centuries. They experience the past and future differently than most other people do. For us English speakers—and for people in most of the…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aymara people, class, Code of Ur-Nammu, exploitation, gender, Hebrew Bible, hierarchy, history of law, inequality, institutional households, making inequality strange, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian city-states, origins of writing, patriarchal family, patriarchy, race, wage theft, writing

 

15. Reimagining community

October 2, 2020

Transcript So this coronavirus is a great demystifier. It’s pulling aside the curtain on fractures in our society, the weak places that keep us from pulling together as a community during a pandemic. Fractures like racism and inequality. And today I’d like to talk about something that underlies all the weak points, and that is…  Read More…

Tagged With: authoritarianism, building community, climate change, climate crisis, community, conformity, hierarchy, Indigenous concepts of community, individual, individual vs. community, individualism, individuality, masks, mass marketing, pandemic, refusing to wear masks

 

3. Becoming family

June 19, 2020

Transcript Many years ago I met the Chickasaw poet and writer Linda Hogan at a conference. We fell to talking, and I told her about the memoir I was writing. The working title was A Wider Circle of Friends, and I told her it was about my lifelong journey toward becoming more aware of the…  Read More…

Tagged With: control, domination, friendship, friendship with nature, hierarchy, kinship, kinship with nature, Linda Hogan, repairing the Earth, stories of nature, subduing the Earth

 

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