John Vaillant

Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century.Fire Weather is an astounding chronicle of the boreal fire that swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta in May 2016. Over the course of 24 hours, the nearly 90,000 residents of this modern-day bitumen subarctic boom town evacuated, escaping the out of control fire as it eviscerated everything in its path. Vaillant zooms in close, guiding us through the decisions made that day as the fire raced into the city, made by residents and authorities alike as catastrophe unfolded. He expands the story to situate Fort Mac as a nexus point in the larger settler colonial history of Canada and its inextricable relationship with the fossil fuel industry and extractive capitalism, all situated within our present paradigm of ecological crisis, climate change, and 21st century fire.  John Vaiilant's acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, were national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar's Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Vaillant has received the Governor General's Literary Award, British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.  Episode Notes:  - Purchase a copy of Fire Weather from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3s9CqHZ- Follow John Vaillant on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnVaillant- The song featured is “Theia” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki’s Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: https://nickvander.bandcamp.comWEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century. Fire Weather is an astounding chronicle of the boreal fire that swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta in May 2016. Over the course of 24 hours, the nearly 90,000 residents of this modern-day bitumen subarctic boom town evacuated, escaping the out of control fire as it eviscerated everything in its path. Vaillant zooms in close, guiding us through the decisions made that day as the fire raced into the city, made by residents and authorities alike as catastrophe unfolded. He expands the story to situate Fort Mac as a nexus point in the larger settler colonial history of Canada and its inextricable relationship with the fossil fuel industry and extractive capitalism, all situated within our present paradigm of ecological crisis, climate change, and 21st century fire.    John Vaiilant's acclaimed, award-winning nonfiction books, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, were national bestsellers. His debut novel, The Jaguar's Children, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Vaillant has received the Governor General's Literary Award, British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, and the Pearson Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He has written for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Walrus. He lives in Vancouver.   Episode Notes:   - Purchase a copy of Fire Weather from Bookshop: <a href="https://bit.ly/3s9CqHZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3s9CqHZ</a> - Follow John Vaillant on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnVaillant" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/JohnVaillant</a> - The song featured is “Theia” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki’s Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: <a href="https://nickvander.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nickvander.bandcamp.com</a> WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#350 | Fire Weather w/ John Vaillant

Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss 'Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast', a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century.Support the podcast and listen to this interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Acclaimed author John Vaillant joins me to discuss 'Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast', a masterfully written chronicle of the destructive power of fire in the twenty-first century. Support the podcast and listen to this interview: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a>

TEASER: Fire Weather w/ John Vaillant

This is a segment of episode 348 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Myth Of Man The Hunter: Human Locomotion &amp; The Diversity Of Foraging Societies w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cara-wall-schefflerRead ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published at PLOS ONE: https://bit.ly/44E0DVcBiological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolution of human locomotion and how it dovetails into the findings and conclusions of the research article she co-authored, ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published last month in PLOS ONE.The data gathered and examined across numerous foraging societies by the authors of this ethnographic review points to the incredible diversity of labor males and females typically engage in to acquire food and other resources. Simultaneously, the findings and conclusions in this study upend stereotypical and essentialist notions about what the commonly understood sexual divisions of labor are—the “man as hunter” and “woman as gatherer” myth—with implications for not only anthropology as a field of study, but for contemporary discourse on topics of gender and sex. A major takeaway from this dialogue with Dr. Wall-Scheffler is that the Euro- and male-centric conceptions of the origins of Homo sapiens are breaking down. The diversity of human social arrangements and adaptation to our environments upsets colonialist and patriarchal assumptions of how we came to be, and provides openings in how we can imagine a more diverse and adaptive future for our species.Cara Wall-Scheffler is Professor and Co-Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University. Her research focuses on the evolution of human sexual dimorphism, particularly in the context of balancing the pressures of thermoregulation and long-distance locomotion. She has been working on this problem for over 10 years and has published numerous papers along with her students. Her work shows very clearly that different selection pressures have acted on men and women, and that women in particular have a rare (among mammals) ability to work both efficiently (energy per unit mass) and economically (total energy) when carrying loads. Women’s abilities are due in part to their relatively small body size, relatively high surface area, relatively broader pelves, and unique methods of thermoregulating.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

This is a segment of episode 348 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “The Myth Of Man The Hunter: Human Locomotion &amp; The Diversity Of Foraging Societies w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler.” Listen to the full episode: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cara-wall-scheffler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cara-wall-scheffler</a> Read ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published at PLOS ONE: <a href="https://bit.ly/44E0DVc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/44E0DVc</a> Biological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolution of human locomotion and how it dovetails into the findings and conclusions of the research article she co-authored, ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published last month in PLOS ONE. The data gathered and examined across numerous foraging societies by the authors of this ethnographic review points to the incredible diversity of labor males and females typically engage in to acquire food and other resources. Simultaneously, the findings and conclusions in this study upend stereotypical and essentialist notions about what the commonly understood sexual divisions of labor are—the “man as hunter” and “woman as gatherer” myth—with implications for not only anthropology as a field of study, but for contemporary discourse on topics of gender and sex. A major takeaway from this dialogue with Dr. Wall-Scheffler is that the Euro- and male-centric conceptions of the origins of Homo sapiens are breaking down. The diversity of human social arrangements and adaptation to our environments upsets colonialist and patriarchal assumptions of how we came to be, and provides openings in how we can imagine a more diverse and adaptive future for our species. Cara Wall-Scheffler is Professor and Co-Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University. Her research focuses on the evolution of human sexual dimorphism, particularly in the context of balancing the pressures of thermoregulation and long-distance locomotion. She has been working on this problem for over 10 years and has published numerous papers along with her students. Her work shows very clearly that different selection pressures have acted on men and women, and that women in particular have a rare (among mammals) ability to work both efficiently (energy per unit mass) and economically (total energy) when carrying loads. Women’s abilities are due in part to their relatively small body size, relatively high surface area, relatively broader pelves, and unique methods of thermoregulating. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

Cara Wall-Scheffler: Human Locomotion & The Diversity Of Foraging Societies

Jonathan Howard

Jonathan Howard MD joins me to discuss his timely book, 'We Want Them Infected: How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of COVID', published by Redhawk Publications.As much as Jonathan Howard’s book is a scathing examination of how various very influential and contrarian doctors misled the US public about the coronavirus pandemic, it is also a historical document. By meticulously, carefully, and thoroughly quoting countless social media posts, statements, essays, op-eds, and interviews from certain highly accredited doctors, Dr. Howard compares their claims to actual reality as the virus began to rip through the population. Over and over again, these outspoken figures made bold and inaccurate claims that the pandemic was just about to end; herd immunity was just around the corner; the worst of the plague had already past; children were unaffected; and so on. Over and over again, these contrarian figures were proven wrong. And yet, despite overwhelming evidence, they still maintain their professional status and accreditation to this day, seemingly unhindered—professionally, at least—by the widespread consequences of their repeated false assumptions and claims.In this interview, Dr. Howard goes through the timeline of some of the claims made by these individuals, elucidating the origins of various bits of misinformation that persist up to the present. He describes what the Great Barrington Declaration is and its significance, and how the dubious public health recommendations relayed through it made its way into the highest echelons of US political and executive power. We discuss how this contrarian view of public health is informed by far-right libertarian philosophy, and how it is animated by a negative conception of liberty. And finally, we conclude by Dr. Howard sharing his views on the value, or lack thereof, of debate with individuals this book highlights and critiques, and how these media-trained, eloquent, and Gish galloping contrarian figures thrive in a media environment that allows their false claims to go largely unchallenged, and what that portends for our response to present and future public health emergencies.Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health and the Chief of Neurology at Bellevue Hospital. He is the author of 'Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine' as well as several textbooks in neurology. He has been interested in vaccines long before the pandemic.Episode Notes:- Learn more about and purchase 'We Want Them Infected': https://bit.ly/44JkRwy / https://a.co/d/6KrEc9A - Learn more about and follow Dr. Howard and his work: https://www.jonathanhowardmd.com / https://twitter.com/19joho / https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/author/jonathanhoward- Music produced by Epik The Dawn: https://epikbeats.netWEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Jonathan Howard MD joins me to discuss his timely book, 'We Want Them Infected: How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of COVID', published by Redhawk Publications. As much as Jonathan Howard’s book is a scathing examination of how various very influential and contrarian doctors misled the US public about the coronavirus pandemic, it is also a historical document. By meticulously, carefully, and thoroughly quoting countless social media posts, statements, essays, op-eds, and interviews from certain highly accredited doctors, Dr. Howard compares their claims to actual reality as the virus began to rip through the population. Over and over again, these outspoken figures made bold and inaccurate claims that the pandemic was just about to end; herd immunity was just around the corner; the worst of the plague had already past; children were unaffected; and so on. Over and over again, these contrarian figures were proven wrong. And yet, despite overwhelming evidence, they still maintain their professional status and accreditation to this day, seemingly unhindered—professionally, at least—by the widespread consequences of their repeated false assumptions and claims. In this interview, Dr. Howard goes through the timeline of some of the claims made by these individuals, elucidating the origins of various bits of misinformation that persist up to the present. He describes what the Great Barrington Declaration is and its significance, and how the dubious public health recommendations relayed through it made its way into the highest echelons of US political and executive power. We discuss how this contrarian view of public health is informed by far-right libertarian philosophy, and how it is animated by a negative conception of liberty. And finally, we conclude by Dr. Howard sharing his views on the value, or lack thereof, of debate with individuals this book highlights and critiques, and how these media-trained, eloquent, and Gish galloping contrarian figures thrive in a media environment that allows their false claims to go largely unchallenged, and what that portends for our response to present and future public health emergencies. Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health and the Chief of Neurology at Bellevue Hospital. He is the author of 'Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine' as well as several textbooks in neurology. He has been interested in vaccines long before the pandemic. Episode Notes: - Learn more about and purchase 'We Want Them Infected': <a href="https://bit.ly/44JkRwy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/44JkRwy</a> / <a href="https://a.co/d/6KrEc9A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://a.co/d/6KrEc9A</a> - Learn more about and follow Dr. Howard and his work: <a href="https://www.jonathanhowardmd.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jonathanhowardmd.com</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/19joho" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/19joho</a> / <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/author/jonathanhoward" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/author/jonathanhoward</a> - Music produced by Epik The Dawn: <a href="https://epikbeats.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://epikbeats.net</a> WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#349 | We Want Them Infected w/ Jonathan Howard

Biological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolution of human locomotion and how it dovetails into the findings and conclusions of the research article she co-authored, 'The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts', published last month in PLOS ONE.The data gathered and examined across numerous foraging societies by the authors of this ethnographic review points to the incredible diversity of labor males and females typically engage in to acquire food and other resources. Simultaneously, the findings and conclusions in this study upend stereotypical and essentialist notions about what the commonly understood sexual divisions of labor are—the “man as hunter” and “woman as gatherer” myth—with implications for not only anthropology as a field of study, but for contemporary discourse on topics of gender and sex. A major takeaway from this dialogue with Dr. Wall-Scheffler is the Euro- and male-centric conceptions of the origins of Homo sapiens is breaking down. The diversity of human adaptation to our environments and social arrangements upsets colonialist and patriarchal assumptions of how we came to be, and provides openings in how we can imagine a more diverse and adaptive future for our species.Cara Wall-Scheffler is Professor and Co-Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University. Her research focuses on the evolution of human sexual dimorphism, particularly in the context of balancing the pressures of thermoregulation and long-distance locomotion. She has been working on this problem for over 10 years and has published numerous papers along with her students. Her work shows very clearly that different selection pressures have acted on men and women, and that women in particular have a rare (among mammals) ability to work both efficiently (energy per unit mass) and economically (total energy) when carrying loads. Women’s abilities are due in part to their relatively small body size, relatively high surface area, relatively broader pelves, and unique methods of thermoregulating.Episode Notes:- Read ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published at PLOS ONE: https://bit.ly/44E0DVc- Follow and learn more about Dr. Wall-Scheffler and their work: https://twitter.com/WallScheffler / https://wallscheffler.wordpress.com / https://bit.ly/3q0tbZQ- Music featured: “Journey To Ascend" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseWEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Biological anthropologist Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler joins me to discuss the evolution of human locomotion and how it dovetails into the findings and conclusions of the research article she co-authored, 'The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts', published last month in PLOS ONE. The data gathered and examined across numerous foraging societies by the authors of this ethnographic review points to the incredible diversity of labor males and females typically engage in to acquire food and other resources. Simultaneously, the findings and conclusions in this study upend stereotypical and essentialist notions about what the commonly understood sexual divisions of labor are—the “man as hunter” and “woman as gatherer” myth—with implications for not only anthropology as a field of study, but for contemporary discourse on topics of gender and sex. A major takeaway from this dialogue with Dr. Wall-Scheffler is the Euro- and male-centric conceptions of the origins of Homo sapiens is breaking down. The diversity of human adaptation to our environments and social arrangements upsets colonialist and patriarchal assumptions of how we came to be, and provides openings in how we can imagine a more diverse and adaptive future for our species. Cara Wall-Scheffler is Professor and Co-Chair of Biology at Seattle Pacific University. Her research focuses on the evolution of human sexual dimorphism, particularly in the context of balancing the pressures of thermoregulation and long-distance locomotion. She has been working on this problem for over 10 years and has published numerous papers along with her students. Her work shows very clearly that different selection pressures have acted on men and women, and that women in particular have a rare (among mammals) ability to work both efficiently (energy per unit mass) and economically (total energy) when carrying loads. Women’s abilities are due in part to their relatively small body size, relatively high surface area, relatively broader pelves, and unique methods of thermoregulating. Episode Notes: - Read ‘The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts’, published at PLOS ONE: <a href="https://bit.ly/44E0DVc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/44E0DVc</a> - Follow and learn more about Dr. Wall-Scheffler and their work: <a href="https://twitter.com/WallScheffler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/WallScheffler</a> / <a href="https://wallscheffler.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wallscheffler.wordpress.com</a> / <a href="https://bit.ly/3q0tbZQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3q0tbZQ</a> - Music featured: “Journey To Ascend" Kevin MacLeod (<a href="http://incompetech.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">incompetech.com</a>) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#348 | The Myth Of Man The Hunter w/ Cara Wall-Scheffler

Nate Holdren

This is a segment of episode 347 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Broken Sociality: Isolation, Social Murder, &amp; The Process Of Depoliticization w/ Nate Holdren." Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-holdrenRead ‘Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”’ at Peste Magazine: https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-socialityLegal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay ‘Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”’.The pandemic emergency has been declared over, both here in the United States, and by the World Health Organization. That does not mean the pandemic is over, but it marks an official end to an emergency level institutional response to it. Any sort of practical and enforceable mitigatory practices to reduce the spread of the virus has been firmly relegated to the past. To add insult to injury, the trauma or discomforts incurred over the past three years are often blamed on these public health measures themselves by high-status conservative and liberal commentators and so-called experts alike. Nevermind the millions dead, the global vaccine apartheid, the tens of millions disabled and those that continue to become disabled, and what those facts mean. The virus’s plethora of variants will continue to infect and reinfect the global population into the foreseeable future—a slow burn with grim long-term consequences.When I read Nate Holdren’s essay on broken sociality and political and social loneliness as the “urgency of normal” takes precedence in the US, it struck a chord within me. He provided a language to describe my feelings and experiences at this stage of the ongoing pandemic. For those of us still masking and avoiding the plague, still keeping up on covid research to the best of our ability, and still admonishing our peers to be mindful of how our behaviors and decisions impact all of us, especially for the most vulnerable, oftentimes a gulf can and does emerge and deepen between our relationships with others that disregard these considerations. When an intrinsically collective health crisis is minimized, and in many cases, outrightly denied by our peers, day-to-day life becomes a lonely affair.Nate Holdren is a legal historian of capitalism in the United States. He is the author of the book ‘Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era’ and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University.   WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

This is a segment of episode 347 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Broken Sociality: Isolation, Social Murder, &amp; The Process Of Depoliticization w/ Nate Holdren." Listen to the full episode: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-holdren" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/nate-holdren</a> Read ‘Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”’ at Peste Magazine: <a href="https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-sociality" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-sociality</a> Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay ‘Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”’. The pandemic emergency has been declared over, both here in the United States, and by the World Health Organization. That does not mean the pandemic is over, but it marks an official end to an emergency level institutional response to it. Any sort of practical and enforceable mitigatory practices to reduce the spread of the virus has been firmly relegated to the past. To add insult to injury, the trauma or discomforts incurred over the past three years are often blamed on these public health measures themselves by high-status conservative and liberal commentators and so-called experts alike. Nevermind the millions dead, the global vaccine apartheid, the tens of millions disabled and those that continue to become disabled, and what those facts mean. The virus’s plethora of variants will continue to infect and reinfect the global population into the foreseeable future—a slow burn with grim long-term consequences. When I read Nate Holdren’s essay on broken sociality and political and social loneliness as the “urgency of normal” takes precedence in the US, it struck a chord within me. He provided a language to describe my feelings and experiences at this stage of the ongoing pandemic. For those of us still masking and avoiding the plague, still keeping up on covid research to the best of our ability, and still admonishing our peers to be mindful of how our behaviors and decisions impact all of us, especially for the most vulnerable, oftentimes a gulf can and does emerge and deepen between our relationships with others that disregard these considerations. When an intrinsically collective health crisis is minimized, and in many cases, outrightly denied by our peers, day-to-day life becomes a lonely affair. Nate Holdren is a legal historian of capitalism in the United States. He is the author of the book ‘Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era’ and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University.    WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

Nate Holdren: Social Murder, Depoliticization, & Finding The Common We

Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay 'Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”'.The pandemic emergency has been declared over, both here in the United States, and by the World Health Organization. That does not mean the pandemic is over, but it marks an official end to an emergency level institutional response to it. Any sort of practical and enforceable mitigatory practices to reduce the spread of the virus has been firmly relegated to the past. To add insult to injury, the trauma or discomforts incurred over the past three years are often blamed on these public health measures themselves by high-status conservative and liberal commentators and so-called experts alike. Nevermind the millions dead, the global vaccine apartheid, the tens of millions disabled and those that continue to become disabled, and what those facts mean. The virus’s plethora of variants will continue to infect and reinfect the global population into the foreseeable future—a slow burn with grim long-term consequences.When I read Nate Holdren’s essay on broken sociality and political and social loneliness as the “urgency of normal” takes precedence in the US, it struck a chord within me. He provided a language to describe my feelings and experiences at this stage of the ongoing pandemic. For those of us still masking and avoiding the plague, still keeping up on covid research to the best of our ability, and still admonishing our peers to be mindful of how our behaviors and decisions impact all of us, especially for the most vulnerable, oftentimes a gulf can and does emerge and deepen between our relationships with others that disregard these considerations. When an intrinsically collective health crisis is minimized, and in many cases, outrightly denied by our peers, day-to-day life becomes a lonely affair.Nate Holdren is a legal historian of capitalism in the United States. He is the author of the book 'Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era' and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University.Episode Notes:- Read Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal” at Peste Magazine: https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-sociality- Read Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic at Bill of Health blog: https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/- Purchase Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/24168/9781108488709- Follow Nate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_hold- Music featured is “In Copenhagen” by Correspondence from Free Music Archive, licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/correspondence/on-on/in-copenhagenWEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Legal historian and author Nate Holdren joins me to discuss broken sociality, political and social loneliness, and social murder and its depoliticization during the pandemic, as elucidated in his Peste Magazine essay 'Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal”'. The pandemic emergency has been declared over, both here in the United States, and by the World Health Organization. That does not mean the pandemic is over, but it marks an official end to an emergency level institutional response to it. Any sort of practical and enforceable mitigatory practices to reduce the spread of the virus has been firmly relegated to the past. To add insult to injury, the trauma or discomforts incurred over the past three years are often blamed on these public health measures themselves by high-status conservative and liberal commentators and so-called experts alike. Nevermind the millions dead, the global vaccine apartheid, the tens of millions disabled and those that continue to become disabled, and what those facts mean. The virus’s plethora of variants will continue to infect and reinfect the global population into the foreseeable future—a slow burn with grim long-term consequences. When I read Nate Holdren’s essay on broken sociality and political and social loneliness as the “urgency of normal” takes precedence in the US, it struck a chord within me. He provided a language to describe my feelings and experiences at this stage of the ongoing pandemic. For those of us still masking and avoiding the plague, still keeping up on covid research to the best of our ability, and still admonishing our peers to be mindful of how our behaviors and decisions impact all of us, especially for the most vulnerable, oftentimes a gulf can and does emerge and deepen between our relationships with others that disregard these considerations. When an intrinsically collective health crisis is minimized, and in many cases, outrightly denied by our peers, day-to-day life becomes a lonely affair. Nate Holdren is a legal historian of capitalism in the United States. He is the author of the book 'Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era' and teaches in the Program in Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University. Episode Notes: - Read Broken Sociality: Isolation in the Pseudo-Return to “Pre-Pandemic Normal” at Peste Magazine: <a href="https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-sociality" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pestemag.com/lost-to-follow-up/broken-sociality</a> - Read Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic at Bill of Health blog: <a href="https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/21/depoliticizing-social-murder-covid-pandemic/</a> - Purchase Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era at Bookshop: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/24168/9781108488709" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/a/24168/9781108488709</a> - Follow Nate on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/n_hold" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/n_hold</a> - Music featured is “In Copenhagen” by Correspondence from Free Music Archive, licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/correspondence/on-on/in-copenhagen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/correspondence/on-on/in-copenhagen</a> WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#347 | Broken Sociality w/ Nate Holdren

Matthew Remski

This is a segment of episode 346 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Disaster Spirituality: The Self Project &amp; How The Apolitical Is Political w/ Matthew Remski.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-remski-2Preorder 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat' from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3NuyJFjConspirituality podcast co-host and journalist Matthew Remski returns to the podcast, bringing his ongoing analysis of online cultists, grifters, and conspiritualists to a discussion that relates to the book he co-authored with co-hosts Julian Walker and Derek Beres titled 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat,' forthcoming from Public Affairs/Random House in June.Following the threads from the Satanic Panic to QAnon, and from QAnon to anti-wokeness, Matthew identifies a set of motivations and circumstances that sets the stage for moral panics and their destructive consequences. Conspiracism becomes inevitable within various spiritual/health and wellness subcultures, communities, and cliques that emphasize the apolitical over the political, the project of the self over class consciousness. Matthew identifies how the apolitical is, in fact, very political, and how “doing your own research” is only half the story.Matthew Remski is a cult survivor and researcher. His 2019 book, 'Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga and Beyond,' is the first systematic analysis of pervasive cultism in the modern yoga world. He researches and writes on abuse in spiritual movements at his website, as well as for publications like GEN by Medium and The Walrus. His current research is pivoting to look at cultic dynamics in conspirituality and eco-justice movements. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their two sons.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

This is a segment of episode 346 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Disaster Spirituality: The Self Project &amp; How The Apolitical Is Political w/ Matthew Remski.” Listen to the full episode: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-remski-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-remski-2</a> Preorder 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat' from Bookshop: <a href="https://bit.ly/3NuyJFj" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3NuyJFj</a> Conspirituality podcast co-host and journalist Matthew Remski returns to the podcast, bringing his ongoing analysis of online cultists, grifters, and conspiritualists to a discussion that relates to the book he co-authored with co-hosts Julian Walker and Derek Beres titled 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat,' forthcoming from Public Affairs/Random House in June. Following the threads from the Satanic Panic to QAnon, and from QAnon to anti-wokeness, Matthew identifies a set of motivations and circumstances that sets the stage for moral panics and their destructive consequences. Conspiracism becomes inevitable within various spiritual/health and wellness subcultures, communities, and cliques that emphasize the apolitical over the political, the project of the self over class consciousness. Matthew identifies how the apolitical is, in fact, very political, and how “doing your own research” is only half the story. Matthew Remski is a cult survivor and researcher. His 2019 book, 'Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga and Beyond,' is the first systematic analysis of pervasive cultism in the modern yoga world. He researches and writes on abuse in spiritual movements at his website, as well as for publications like GEN by Medium and The Walrus. His current research is pivoting to look at cultic dynamics in conspirituality and eco-justice movements. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their two sons. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

Matthew Remski: The Self Project & How The Apolitical Is Political

Conspirituality podcast co-host and journalist Matthew Remski returns to the podcast, bringing his ongoing analysis of online cultists, grifters, and conspiritualists to a discussion that relates to the book he co-authored with co-hosts Julian Walker and Derek Beres titled 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat,' forthcoming from Public Affairs/Random House in June.We begin our discussion by delving into what Matthew describes as the “amoral attention economy” and how becoming “professionalized into the cursed news cycle” impacts one’s mental health. Matthew has taken it upon himself to jump into the fray of online “disaster spirituality” and the circles of culty health and wellness grifters—a psychologically and emotionally taxing beat to be on. Based on personal experiences he’s had, some of which he shares in this interview, along with a deep research background into cultic dynamics and abuse in spiritual movements, Matthew has developed an ability to adeptly spot, analyze, and critique the charismatic, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing public personas that contaminate public discourse. He walks us through the dynamics at play, and provides a material framework for understanding how these figures and ideas become so influential to begin with. Following the threads from the Satanic Panic to QAnon, and from QAnon to anti-wokeness, Matthew identifies a set of motivations and circumstances that sets the stage for moral panics and their destructive consequences. Conspiracism becomes inevitable within various spiritual/health and wellness subcultures, communities, and cliques that emphasize the apolitical over the political, the project of the self over class consciousness. Matthew identifies how the apolitical is, in fact, very political, and how “doing your own research” is only half the story.Matthew Remski is a cult survivor and researcher. His 2019 book, 'Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga and Beyond,' is the first systematic analysis of pervasive cultism in the modern yoga world. He researches and writes on abuse in spiritual movements at his website, as well as for publications like GEN by Medium and The Walrus. His current research is pivoting to look at cultic dynamics in conspirituality and eco-justice movements. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their two sons.Episode Notes:  - Preorder 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat' from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3NuyJFj- Subscribe to Conspirituality and learn more: https://www.conspirituality.net- Learn more about Matthew’s work at his website and follow him on Twitter: https://matthewremski.com/wordpress / https://twitter.com/matthewremski- Music produced by Epik The Dawn: https://epikbeats.netWEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Conspirituality podcast co-host and journalist Matthew Remski returns to the podcast, bringing his ongoing analysis of online cultists, grifters, and conspiritualists to a discussion that relates to the book he co-authored with co-hosts Julian Walker and Derek Beres titled 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat,' forthcoming from Public Affairs/Random House in June. We begin our discussion by delving into what Matthew describes as the “amoral attention economy” and how becoming “professionalized into the cursed news cycle” impacts one’s mental health. Matthew has taken it upon himself to jump into the fray of online “disaster spirituality” and the circles of culty health and wellness grifters—a psychologically and emotionally taxing beat to be on. Based on personal experiences he’s had, some of which he shares in this interview, along with a deep research background into cultic dynamics and abuse in spiritual movements, Matthew has developed an ability to adeptly spot, analyze, and critique the charismatic, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing public personas that contaminate public discourse. He walks us through the dynamics at play, and provides a material framework for understanding how these figures and ideas become so influential to begin with. Following the threads from the Satanic Panic to QAnon, and from QAnon to anti-wokeness, Matthew identifies a set of motivations and circumstances that sets the stage for moral panics and their destructive consequences. Conspiracism becomes inevitable within various spiritual/health and wellness subcultures, communities, and cliques that emphasize the apolitical over the political, the project of the self over class consciousness. Matthew identifies how the apolitical is, in fact, very political, and how “doing your own research” is only half the story. Matthew Remski is a cult survivor and researcher. His 2019 book, 'Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga and Beyond,' is the first systematic analysis of pervasive cultism in the modern yoga world. He researches and writes on abuse in spiritual movements at his website, as well as for publications like GEN by Medium and The Walrus. His current research is pivoting to look at cultic dynamics in conspirituality and eco-justice movements. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their two sons. Episode Notes:   - Preorder 'Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat' from Bookshop: <a href="https://bit.ly/3NuyJFj" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3NuyJFj</a> - Subscribe to Conspirituality and learn more: <a href="https://www.conspirituality.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.conspirituality.net</a> - Learn more about Matthew’s work at his website and follow him on Twitter: <a href="https://matthewremski.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://matthewremski.com/wordpress</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewremski" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/matthewremski</a> - Music produced by Epik The Dawn: <a href="https://epikbeats.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://epikbeats.net</a> WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#346 | Disaster Spirituality w/ Matthew Remski

Dahr Jamail

This is a segment of episode 345 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Rumination On Truth: The Destruction Of Iraq, Twenty Years On w/ Dahr Jamail.” Listen to the full episode and read the transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/dahr-jamail-3Learn more about Dahr and his work: https://www.dahrjamail.netAuthor and former climate journalist Dahr Jamail returns to the podcast to discuss the 20th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by United States-led coalition forces. Jamail began his journalistic career as an unembedded journalist documenting the war from the ground beginning in 2003, highlighting the countless war crimes committed by the occupying forces against the civilians of Iraq, superbly documented in his first book on the subject, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq published in 2007 by Haymarket Books. Dahr Jamail is an award-winning author and journalist who formerly reported on climate disruption and environmental issues for Truthout. He is the author of multiple books, including The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption published in 2019, and most recently, We Are the Middle of Forever, co-written and co-edited with Stan Rushworth and released April 2022 by The New Press. Dahr is also the host of the upcoming podcast miniseries Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling produced by the Post Carbon Institute, which brings “forward the perspectives of Indigenous communities from around the world as humans and the more-than-human reckon with the consequences of global, industrial society built on growth, extraction, and colonialism.”  WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastSUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.comBOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

This is a segment of episode 345 of Last Born In The Wilderness, “Rumination On Truth: The Destruction Of Iraq, Twenty Years On w/ Dahr Jamail.” Listen to the full episode and read the transcript: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/dahr-jamail-3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/dahr-jamail-3</a> Learn more about Dahr and his work: <a href="https://www.dahrjamail.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.dahrjamail.net</a> Author and former climate journalist Dahr Jamail returns to the podcast to discuss the 20th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by United States-led coalition forces. Jamail began his journalistic career as an unembedded journalist documenting the war from the ground beginning in 2003, highlighting the countless war crimes committed by the occupying forces against the civilians of Iraq, superbly documented in his first book on the subject, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq published in 2007 by Haymarket Books. Dahr Jamail is an award-winning author and journalist who formerly reported on climate disruption and environmental issues for Truthout. He is the author of multiple books, including The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption published in 2019, and most recently, We Are the Middle of Forever, co-written and co-edited with Stan Rushworth and released April 2022 by The New Press. Dahr is also the host of the upcoming podcast miniseries Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling produced by the Post Carbon Institute, which brings “forward the perspectives of Indigenous communities from around the world as humans and the more-than-human reckon with the consequences of global, industrial society built on growth, extraction, and colonialism.”   WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> SUBSTACK: <a href="https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com</a> BOOK LIST: <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

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In this episode, I speak with Bayo Akomolafe — lecturer, activist, and the author of ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home.' We pick up where we left off from when we last spoke over one year ago, and get into some of the overlying (and underlying) themes of his work, which includes a radical reshaping of the understandable, but often unexamined, sense of urgency we feel in a time of accelerating change and ecological collapse as we fully enter into the Anthropocene, "the human epoch."The times are urgent, let’s slow down. I ask Bayo to elaborate on the deeper currents that run through his activism and writing, including what it means to “slow down” in a time of accelerating change and the catastrophic unraveling of the biosphere as we enter into the “the human epoch.” The Western encultured mind grasps for meaning, direct purpose, in order to “figure it all out” in the face of this global unraveling, as if we are clever enough to escape the planet we have molded in our image (impoverished, depleted, traumatized, ruined). The human being, within our current paradigm, is grasping for meaning in all this (this certainly includes myself). As Bayo elaborates in so much of his work, and in his recent essay ‘Coming Into The Sanctuary’ “[w]e cannot practice escape any longer — if we are to survive. We cannot cleanse ourselves of our sins or hope for the parting of the clouds to bring a convenient saviour. [W]e must now gesture toward hopes and worlds beyond modern imaginaries. Beyond humans. Beyond the intelligible. Beyond our usual ways of making sense. [W]e must go to the edges, toward the hedgerows teeming with hagodays and gargoyles and stuttered beings, and learn to [witness] with-ness the world we once banished to the peripheries of significance.”* We explore these questions and much more in this wide-ranging conversation.Bayo Akomolafe is a husband and father, as well as an international speaker, poet and activist for a radical paradigm shift in consciousness and current ways of living. Bayo is globally recognized for his unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change. He is the Executive Director and Coordinating Curator for The Emergence Network. Through his work with The Emergence Network, “Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing –- a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’… one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify.”***Source: http://bit.ly/2Tor3tz**Source: http://bit.ly/BayoAboutEpisode Notes:- Learn more about Bayo and his work at his website: http://bayoakomolafe.net- Read his recent essay ‘Coming Into The Sanctuary,” quoted above and in the introduction to this episode: http://bit.ly/2Tor3tz- Learn more about The Emergence Network: http://www.emergencenetwork.org- Purchase Bayo’s book ‘These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home’: http://bit.ly/2EUNVYL- The songs featured in this episode are “Sound &amp; Color” and “This Feeling” by Alabama Shakes from the album Sounds &amp; Color.- WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON- DONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALKo-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI- DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837- FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE- NEWSLETTER: http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter- SOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with Bayo Akomolafe — lecturer, activist, and the author of ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home.' We pick up where we left off from when we last spoke over one year ago, and get into some of the overlying (and underlying) themes of his work, which includes a radical reshaping of the understandable, but often unexamined, sense of urgency we feel in a time of accelerating change and ecological collapse as we fully enter into the Anthropocene, "the human epoch." The times are urgent, let’s slow down. I ask Bayo to elaborate on the deeper currents that run through his activism and writing, including what it means to “slow down” in a time of accelerating change and the catastrophic unraveling of the biosphere as we enter into the “the human epoch.” The Western encultured mind grasps for meaning, direct purpose, in order to “figure it all out” in the face of this global unraveling, as if we are clever enough to escape the planet we have molded in our image (impoverished, depleted, traumatized, ruined). The human being, within our current paradigm, is grasping for meaning in all this (this certainly includes myself). As Bayo elaborates in so much of his work, and in his recent essay ‘Coming Into The Sanctuary’ “[w]e cannot practice escape any longer — if we are to survive. We cannot cleanse ourselves of our sins or hope for the parting of the clouds to bring a convenient saviour. [W]e must now gesture toward hopes and worlds beyond modern imaginaries. Beyond humans. Beyond the intelligible. Beyond our usual ways of making sense. [W]e must go to the edges, toward the hedgerows teeming with hagodays and gargoyles and stuttered beings, and learn to [witness] with-ness the world we once banished to the peripheries of significance.”* We explore these questions and much more in this wide-ranging conversation. Bayo Akomolafe is a husband and father, as well as an international speaker, poet and activist for a radical paradigm shift in consciousness and current ways of living. Bayo is globally recognized for his unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change. He is the Executive Director and Coordinating Curator for The Emergence Network. Through his work with The Emergence Network, “Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing –- a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’… one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify.”** *Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Tor3tz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Tor3tz</a> **Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/BayoAbout" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/BayoAbout</a> Episode Notes: - Learn more about Bayo and his work at his website: <a href="http://bayoakomolafe.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bayoakomolafe.net</a> - Read his recent essay ‘Coming Into The Sanctuary,” quoted above and in the introduction to this episode: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Tor3tz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Tor3tz</a> - Learn more about The Emergence Network: <a href="http://www.emergencenetwork.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.emergencenetwork.org</a> - Purchase Bayo’s book ‘These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2EUNVYL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2EUNVYL</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Sound &amp; Color” and “This Feeling” by Alabama Shakes from the album Sounds &amp; Color. - WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> - DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> Ko-Fi: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI</a> - DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 - FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> - NEWSLETTER: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter</a> - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#179 | We Will Not Arrive Intact: The Times Are Urgent, Let's Slow Down w/ Bayo Akomolafe

John Zerzan

In this episode, I speak with anarchist and primitivist writer and philosopher John Zerzan. We discuss his deep analysis of the roots of Time as we understand it to be in the modern sense (explored in a collection of essays titled ‘Time &amp; Time Again’), the roots of agriculture and the domestication of life, the detrimental impact this transition has had on human health and physical development, the neuroses of mass society (alienation, depression, anxiety, etc.), the wholesale disappearance of community, and the threat technological advancement poses for complex life on the planet. As mentioned above, we begin the discussion by examining the concept of Time, as expressed in John’s collection of essays ‘Time &amp; Time Again,’ published by Detritus Books. As John writes in his essay ‘Time and its Discontents’: “The further we go in time the worse it gets. We inhabit an age of the disintegration of experience, according to Adorno. The pressure of time, like that of its essential progenitor, division of labor, fragments and disperses all before it.”❂ Everything, as John points to his writing, becomes subject to the will and tyranny of Time, a process that continually disempowers us in the service of technological advancement and economic growth — ideological constructs that serves the continuation and legitimization of “Civilization” more broadly, regardless of the detrimental impacts this structure has on human life and the complex living systems of this planet.John and I also discuss the root of the pervasive neuroses, destructive addictive behaviors, and outbursts of violence in modern society — all of which stem from the alienation produced by the community-destroying elements present in civilized life today. Through John’s examination of anthropological evidence of humanity’s pre-historic past, we can understand that much of what we take for granted to be “normal” human behavior and development is really, in the scope of things, a rather recent product of the logic of technological and economic progress inherent in capitalist development — the most recent phase in global civilization’s aim to expand and protract itself into every aspect of the human experience on this planet. What can we learn from this examination of human life before the rise of symbolic thought and agriculture? We discuss this and more in this episode.John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought and the concept of time. His most recent books are ‘A People's History of Civilization’ and ‘Time and Time Again,’ both released this year (2018).✧❂ Source: http://bit.ly/TimeDiscontents✧Source: http://bit.ly/WikiZerzanEpisode Notes: - Learn about John’s work at his website: http://johnzerzan.net- Purchase ‘Time &amp; Time Again’ from Detritus Books: http://bit.ly/TTAgain- Purchase ‘A People’s History of Civilization’ from Feral House: http://bit.ly/APHCiv- Listen to John’s weekly produced ‘Anarchy Radio’: http://bit.ly/AnarchyRadio- The song featured in this episode is ‘Carbon 7 (161)’ by Jlin from the album Black Origami. - WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON- DONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALKo-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI- FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE- SOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with anarchist and primitivist writer and philosopher John Zerzan. We discuss his deep analysis of the roots of Time as we understand it to be in the modern sense (explored in a collection of essays titled ‘Time &amp; Time Again’), the roots of agriculture and the domestication of life, the detrimental impact this transition has had on human health and physical development, the neuroses of mass society (alienation, depression, anxiety, etc.), the wholesale disappearance of community, and the threat technological advancement poses for complex life on the planet. As mentioned above, we begin the discussion by examining the concept of Time, as expressed in John’s collection of essays ‘Time &amp; Time Again,’ published by Detritus Books. As John writes in his essay ‘Time and its Discontents’: “The further we go in time the worse it gets. We inhabit an age of the disintegration of experience, according to Adorno. The pressure of time, like that of its essential progenitor, division of labor, fragments and disperses all before it.”❂ Everything, as John points to his writing, becomes subject to the will and tyranny of Time, a process that continually disempowers us in the service of technological advancement and economic growth — ideological constructs that serves the continuation and legitimization of “Civilization” more broadly, regardless of the detrimental impacts this structure has on human life and the complex living systems of this planet. John and I also discuss the root of the pervasive neuroses, destructive addictive behaviors, and outbursts of violence in modern society — all of which stem from the alienation produced by the community-destroying elements present in civilized life today. Through John’s examination of anthropological evidence of humanity’s pre-historic past, we can understand that much of what we take for granted to be “normal” human behavior and development is really, in the scope of things, a rather recent product of the logic of technological and economic progress inherent in capitalist development — the most recent phase in global civilization’s aim to expand and protract itself into every aspect of the human experience on this planet. What can we learn from this examination of human life before the rise of symbolic thought and agriculture? We discuss this and more in this episode. John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought and the concept of time. His most recent books are ‘A People's History of Civilization’ and ‘Time and Time Again,’ both released this year (2018).✧ ❂ Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/TimeDiscontents" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TimeDiscontents</a> ✧Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/WikiZerzan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/WikiZerzan</a> Episode Notes: - Learn about John’s work at his website: <a href="http://johnzerzan.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://johnzerzan.net</a> - Purchase ‘Time &amp; Time Again’ from Detritus Books: <a href="http://bit.ly/TTAgain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TTAgain</a> - Purchase ‘A People’s History of Civilization’ from Feral House: <a href="http://bit.ly/APHCiv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/APHCiv</a> - Listen to John’s weekly produced ‘Anarchy Radio’: <a href="http://bit.ly/AnarchyRadio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/AnarchyRadio</a> - The song featured in this episode is ‘Carbon 7 (161)’ by Jlin from the album Black Origami. - WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> - DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> Ko-Fi: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI</a> - FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#149 | Time & Time, Again: The Neuroses Of Domesticated Life w/ John Zerzan

Michael Sliwa

In this episode, I speak with Michael Sliwa — author, former educator, and “one of the foremost speakers on simple living.”⚐ My discussion with Michael addresses the traps of modernity — including work, consumerism, settler-colonialism, our culture’s attachment to things, and the path Michael has taken to move further away from the center of Empire in an attempt to liberate himself from false needs and excessive wants, in turn learning to live much more simply, nomadically, and communally. In particular, what we discuss is that in spite of this worthy effort, privilege plays an enormous role in an individual’s ability to move away from the destructive nature and impact of this industrial culture, and as Michael addresses in this episode, the recognition of this fundamental aspect of living within a society forged in settler-colonial values and maintained through the socio-economic imposition to “make a living” informs this effort in more ways than can be initially understood. The false sense of security careers and material accumulation brings in a culture bereft of community and land-based consciousness is something worth addressing and overcoming in spite of this, especially in the face of widespread ecological disintegration and abrupt climate disruption — a result of this imposition to “make a living” regardless of the long-term consequences. Michael and I get at the worthiness of the effort to liberate oneself of false needs and wants, and what interesting paths await those that make the leap toward personal responsibility and deep recognition of the role privilege plays in the maintaining of the illusion of stability and prosperity in this society, in light of the devastating impact this logic has had on the living systems of this planet — in which we are inextricably tied to. Michael’s insight is a treasure, and we discuss these subjects and more in this episode.Michael Sliwa is the author of 'Chasing A Different Carrot: A Manifesto For The Predicament Of Privilege’ and is one of the foremost speakers on simple living. He and his wife Karen are former educators who left behind their careers and most of their worldly possessions in order to pursue a life of genuine connectivity. For years Michael and Karen have been traveling, working and speaking about what it means to live a life of simplicity. They have built a skill set that has allowed them to continue along a path where stress and chaos are left behind and efficiency and durability take their place. Michael has shared their story through keynotes, workshops, assemblies, and TEDx Talks along the way. Today Michael is the Co-Founder and Development Specialist for one of the most dynamic speaking agencies in the country, TRUality, and is the former co-host of Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network.⚐⚐ Source: http://bit.ly/2ANMhEOEpisode Notes:- Learn more about Michael’s work at his website: https://michaelsliwa.wordpress.com- Watch Michael’s video series ‘Another Way’ here: http://bit.ly/MSanotherway- Learn more about and purchase Michael’s book ‘Chasing A Different Carrot: A Manifesto For The Predicament Of Privilege’ here: https://amzn.to/2PejD4Y- Follow Michael on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.j.sliwa- Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarrotChasing- The songs featured in this episode are “Right On,” “African New Wave,” and “The Doldrums” by Paul White from the album Rapping With Paul White.- WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON- DONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALKo-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI- FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE- SOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with Michael Sliwa — author, former educator, and “one of the foremost speakers on simple living.”⚐ My discussion with Michael addresses the traps of modernity — including work, consumerism, settler-colonialism, our culture’s attachment to things, and the path Michael has taken to move further away from the center of Empire in an attempt to liberate himself from false needs and excessive wants, in turn learning to live much more simply, nomadically, and communally. In particular, what we discuss is that in spite of this worthy effort, privilege plays an enormous role in an individual’s ability to move away from the destructive nature and impact of this industrial culture, and as Michael addresses in this episode, the recognition of this fundamental aspect of living within a society forged in settler-colonial values and maintained through the socio-economic imposition to “make a living” informs this effort in more ways than can be initially understood. The false sense of security careers and material accumulation brings in a culture bereft of community and land-based consciousness is something worth addressing and overcoming in spite of this, especially in the face of widespread ecological disintegration and abrupt climate disruption — a result of this imposition to “make a living” regardless of the long-term consequences. Michael and I get at the worthiness of the effort to liberate oneself of false needs and wants, and what interesting paths await those that make the leap toward personal responsibility and deep recognition of the role privilege plays in the maintaining of the illusion of stability and prosperity in this society, in light of the devastating impact this logic has had on the living systems of this planet — in which we are inextricably tied to. Michael’s insight is a treasure, and we discuss these subjects and more in this episode. Michael Sliwa is the author of 'Chasing A Different Carrot: A Manifesto For The Predicament Of Privilege’ and is one of the foremost speakers on simple living. He and his wife Karen are former educators who left behind their careers and most of their worldly possessions in order to pursue a life of genuine connectivity. For years Michael and Karen have been traveling, working and speaking about what it means to live a life of simplicity. They have built a skill set that has allowed them to continue along a path where stress and chaos are left behind and efficiency and durability take their place. Michael has shared their story through keynotes, workshops, assemblies, and TEDx Talks along the way. Today Michael is the Co-Founder and Development Specialist for one of the most dynamic speaking agencies in the country, TRUality, and is the former co-host of Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network.⚐ ⚐ Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/2ANMhEO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2ANMhEO</a> Episode Notes: - Learn more about Michael’s work at his website: <a href="https://michaelsliwa.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://michaelsliwa.wordpress.com</a> - Watch Michael’s video series ‘Another Way’ here: <a href="http://bit.ly/MSanotherway" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/MSanotherway</a> - Learn more about and purchase Michael’s book ‘Chasing A Different Carrot: A Manifesto For The Predicament Of Privilege’ here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2PejD4Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2PejD4Y</a> - Follow Michael on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.j.sliwa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/michael.j.sliwa</a> - Follow on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/CarrotChasing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/CarrotChasing</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Right On,” “African New Wave,” and “The Doldrums” by Paul White from the album Rapping With Paul White. - WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> - DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> Ko-Fi: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI</a> - FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#159 | The Privilege To Leave: Stepping Away From The Center Of Empire w/ Michael Sliwa

William Rees

In this episode, I speak with William Rees, human ecologist, ecological economist, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Rees is the originator and co-developer of the “ecological footprint analysis,” and the co-author (with Mathis Wackernagel) of 'Our Ecological Footprint,' an exploration of this concept. The Ecological Footprint concept has become the world’s best-known metaphor for the human ‘load’ (the resources required of ecosystems to maintain our current mode of living) on the planet.*In this interview, we discuss Dr. Rees’ lifetime of research into the ecological footprint of human societies on this planet, as well as the global biophysical limits we are coming up against due to our current mode of living (particularly in the "developed" world). We then discuss Dr. Rees’ work regarding the “neuro-biological, cognitive and cultural barriers to sustainability, including human’s well-developed capacity for self-delusion.”** In the face of abrupt climate change, catastrophic loss of biodiversity around the globe, and rapid species decline across the board in recent decades, why are we, as a species, unable to clearly perceive the very perilous situation we find ourselves in? What is it about creating very large-scale, complex systems (technologies, cultures, societies), that makes us unable to perceive how our way of living detrimentally impacts planetary life-systems, which we rely on for our own survival and well-being? In the face of the physical reality we are forging for ourselves and all other life on this planet, what can we expect to happen in the face of these profound changes currently underway? We discuss these subjects, and more, in this episode.Dr. Rees has authored (or co-authored) more than 150 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and numerous popular articles on humanity’s (un)sustainability conundrum. Active across disciplines, Dr Rees is a long-term member of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute, a founding member and past President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and founding Director of the OneEarth Initiative.***Source: https://bit.ly/2sSbPwT**Source: https://bit.ly/2LrZpn3Episode Notes:- Keep up to date with Dr. Rees’ recent writings at The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/- Find out more about Dr. Rees and his work at his website: http://williamrees.org- Purchase Dr. Rees’ book 'Our Ecological Footprint' here: https://amzn.to/2sAMRCO- Here are links to the resources/papers Dr. Rees mentioned at the end of the episode:“Avoiding Collapse: An agenda for sustainable degrowth and relocalizing the economy” (https://bit.ly/1qHAq1G)“What’s blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial” (https://bit.ly/2Jmw5NX)The Global Footprint Network website: https://www.footprintnetwork.org- The song featured in this episode is “Kelau” by Flako from the album Mini Tollbooth- Podcast website: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- Support the podcast:PATREON: www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessONE-TIME DONATION: www.ko-fi.com/lastborninthewilderness- Follow and listen:SOUNDCLOUD: www.soundcloud.com/lastborninthewildernessITUNES: www.goo.gl/Fvy4caGOOGLE PLAY: https://goo.gl/wYgMQcSTITCHER: https://goo.gl/eeUBfS- Social Media:FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/lastborninthewildernesspodcastTWITTER: www.twitter.com/lastbornpodcastINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/patterns.of.behavior

In this episode, I speak with William Rees, human ecologist, ecological economist, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Rees is the originator and co-developer of the “ecological footprint analysis,” and the co-author (with Mathis Wackernagel) of 'Our Ecological Footprint,' an exploration of this concept. The Ecological Footprint concept has become the world’s best-known metaphor for the human ‘load’ (the resources required of ecosystems to maintain our current mode of living) on the planet.* In this interview, we discuss Dr. Rees’ lifetime of research into the ecological footprint of human societies on this planet, as well as the global biophysical limits we are coming up against due to our current mode of living (particularly in the "developed" world). We then discuss Dr. Rees’ work regarding the “neuro-biological, cognitive and cultural barriers to sustainability, including human’s well-developed capacity for self-delusion.”** In the face of abrupt climate change, catastrophic loss of biodiversity around the globe, and rapid species decline across the board in recent decades, why are we, as a species, unable to clearly perceive the very perilous situation we find ourselves in? What is it about creating very large-scale, complex systems (technologies, cultures, societies), that makes us unable to perceive how our way of living detrimentally impacts planetary life-systems, which we rely on for our own survival and well-being? In the face of the physical reality we are forging for ourselves and all other life on this planet, what can we expect to happen in the face of these profound changes currently underway? We discuss these subjects, and more, in this episode. Dr. Rees has authored (or co-authored) more than 150 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and numerous popular articles on humanity’s (un)sustainability conundrum. Active across disciplines, Dr Rees is a long-term member of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute, a founding member and past President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and founding Director of the OneEarth Initiative.** *Source: <a href="https://bit.ly/2sSbPwT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2sSbPwT</a> **Source: <a href="https://bit.ly/2LrZpn3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2LrZpn3</a> Episode Notes: - Keep up to date with Dr. Rees’ recent writings at The Tyee: <a href="https://thetyee.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thetyee.ca/</a> - Find out more about Dr. Rees and his work at his website: <a href="http://williamrees.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://williamrees.org</a> - Purchase Dr. Rees’ book 'Our Ecological Footprint' here: <a href="https://amzn.to/2sAMRCO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2sAMRCO</a> - Here are links to the resources/papers Dr. Rees mentioned at the end of the episode: “Avoiding Collapse: An agenda for sustainable degrowth and relocalizing the economy” (<a href="https://bit.ly/1qHAq1G" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/1qHAq1G</a>) “What’s blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial” (<a href="https://bit.ly/2Jmw5NX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2Jmw5NX</a>) The Global Footprint Network website: <a href="https://www.footprintnetwork.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.footprintnetwork.org</a> - The song featured in this episode is “Kelau” by Flako from the album Mini Tollbooth - Podcast website: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - Support the podcast: PATREON: <a href="http://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> ONE-TIME DONATION: <a href="http://www.ko-fi.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ko-fi.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> - Follow and listen: SOUNDCLOUD: <a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.soundcloud.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> ITUNES: <a href="http://www.goo.gl/Fvy4ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.goo.gl/Fvy4ca</a> GOOGLE PLAY: <a href="https://goo.gl/wYgMQc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/wYgMQc</a> STITCHER: <a href="https://goo.gl/eeUBfS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/eeUBfS</a> - Social Media: FACEBOOK: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lastborninthewildernesspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/lastborninthewildernesspodcast</a> TWITTER: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/lastbornpodcast</a> INSTAGRAM: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#125 | Marching Toward Collapse: Biophysical Limits & Our Cognitive Blindspots w/ William Rees

Holly Truhlar

[Intro: 12:45]In this episode, I speak with lawyer, grief therapist, and community builder Holly Truhlar. We discuss her provocatively titled essay ‘Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself,’ which addressed the ways mainstream psychology, as it is currently practiced today, largely lacks the framework, language, and tools required to adequately counsel those that are coming into the growing awareness that the systems we are embedded within are leading to societal collapse, ecological disintegration, and abrupt climate disruption on the global scale.Mainstream psychology “puts the onus on the individual and takes the focus off of the violent and divisive systems we’re in,”* which in turn disempowers the individual from preparing, in any meaningful sense, for what lies ahead as we begin to experience the impacts of a fraying socioeconomic and political system (mired in systemic oppression and corruption), the catastrophic loss of species (described as the Sixth Mass Extinction event), a radically changing climate system (as a result of industrialization), and the likely near-term extinction of the human species as a result of these converging crises. “As with all things capitalist, patriarchal, and committed to the growth of civilization, psychology is used mostly as a tool of the oppressor to keep us divided into individual causes rather than working in solidarity with our class structure.”* Holly, in her work, seeks to make use of the tools provided in mainstream psychology, and incorporate Radical Attunement Work (RAW), which cultivates "a deep awareness of people and systems in order to fundamentally shift exploitative ways of being towards reciprocal relationship, collective liberation, and communities of care.”** As Holly says in her essay “we don’t have time for this shit. We have a small window in which we MAY be able to learn the skills needed to co-regulate with each other and organize for the needed revolution (or end-of-life care for our species).” The stakes really are this high. We discuss this and more in this episode. Holly Truhlar is a lawyer, grief therapist, and community builder. She’s integrated her doctorate in law with a masters in transpersonal counseling psychology to create a model for personal and collective liberation. This model, called Radical Attunement Work (RAW), moves people and groups from dominating and exploitative ways of being into attuned and transformational relationships. Her work lies at the convergence of ancestral grief, collective trauma, conscious collapse, and social justice. She’s currently practicing and researching social technologies, such as ritual and Deep Democracy work, that foster large-scale trauma resolution and collective nervous system regulation. She's been called to help hold grief in these troubled and transitional times, so she lives with her heart broken open and soul on display.****http://bit.ly/2Uwfyjw**http://bit.ly/2VoS4tN***http://bit.ly/2KcGbpJEpisode Notes: - Read Holly’s essay ‘Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself’: http://bit.ly/2Uwfyjw- Learn more about Holly and her work at: https://www.hollytruhlar.com- Learn more about the Tending The Threshold conference: https://tendingthethreshold.com- The song featured in this episode is “Guns Are Drawn” by The Roots from the album The Tipping Point.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREONSTORE: http://bit.ly/LBWmerchDONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALDROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBENEWSLETTER: http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletterSOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

[Intro: 12:45] In this episode, I speak with lawyer, grief therapist, and community builder Holly Truhlar. We discuss her provocatively titled essay ‘Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself,’ which addressed the ways mainstream psychology, as it is currently practiced today, largely lacks the framework, language, and tools required to adequately counsel those that are coming into the growing awareness that the systems we are embedded within are leading to societal collapse, ecological disintegration, and abrupt climate disruption on the global scale. Mainstream psychology “puts the onus on the individual and takes the focus off of the violent and divisive systems we’re in,”* which in turn disempowers the individual from preparing, in any meaningful sense, for what lies ahead as we begin to experience the impacts of a fraying socioeconomic and political system (mired in systemic oppression and corruption), the catastrophic loss of species (described as the Sixth Mass Extinction event), a radically changing climate system (as a result of industrialization), and the likely near-term extinction of the human species as a result of these converging crises. “As with all things capitalist, patriarchal, and committed to the growth of civilization, psychology is used mostly as a tool of the oppressor to keep us divided into individual causes rather than working in solidarity with our class structure.”* Holly, in her work, seeks to make use of the tools provided in mainstream psychology, and incorporate Radical Attunement Work (RAW), which cultivates "a deep awareness of people and systems in order to fundamentally shift exploitative ways of being towards reciprocal relationship, collective liberation, and communities of care.”** As Holly says in her essay “we don’t have time for this shit. We have a small window in which we MAY be able to learn the skills needed to co-regulate with each other and organize for the needed revolution (or end-of-life care for our species).” The stakes really are this high. We discuss this and more in this episode. Holly Truhlar is a lawyer, grief therapist, and community builder. She’s integrated her doctorate in law with a masters in transpersonal counseling psychology to create a model for personal and collective liberation. This model, called Radical Attunement Work (RAW), moves people and groups from dominating and exploitative ways of being into attuned and transformational relationships. Her work lies at the convergence of ancestral grief, collective trauma, conscious collapse, and social justice. She’s currently practicing and researching social technologies, such as ritual and Deep Democracy work, that foster large-scale trauma resolution and collective nervous system regulation. She's been called to help hold grief in these troubled and transitional times, so she lives with her heart broken open and soul on display.*** *<a href="http://bit.ly/2Uwfyjw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Uwfyjw</a> **<a href="http://bit.ly/2VoS4tN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2VoS4tN</a> ***<a href="http://bit.ly/2KcGbpJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2KcGbpJ</a> Episode Notes: - Read Holly’s essay ‘Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Uwfyjw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Uwfyjw</a> - Learn more about Holly and her work at: <a href="https://www.hollytruhlar.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.hollytruhlar.com</a> - Learn more about the Tending The Threshold conference: <a href="https://tendingthethreshold.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tendingthethreshold.com</a> - The song featured in this episode is “Guns Are Drawn” by The Roots from the album The Tipping Point. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> STORE: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWmerch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWmerch</a> DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> NEWSLETTER: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter</a> SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#186 | Mainstream Psychology Can Go Fuck Itself: Managing Collapse Awareness w/ Holly Truhlar

Peter Gelderloos

In this episode, I speak with anarchist, activist, and writer Peter Gelderloos. Peter is the author of numerous books, two of which we examine in this interview — ‘How Nonviolence Protects The State’ and ’Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation.’ In this discussion, I ask Peter to examine the most lauded nonviolent movements in recent history: the anti-colonial movement in India in the early 20th century (in which Mahatma Gandhi became well known for his use of nonviolent resistance against British rule) and the civil rights and anti-war movements in the United States in the 1950s through the 1970s. As Peter elaborates in his book ‘How Nonviolence Protects The State,’ nonviolence and pacifism in general severely limit resistance movements in adequately and seriously upending and defending against entrenched systems of oppression and violence — the State being the ultimate manifestation of this in the world today (and through out much of human history, as we explore later). We get at the root of his critique of nonviolence, and attempt to clarify his position on this subject. In the later half of this episode, we move onto his most recent book ‘Worshiping Power,’ in which Peter examines early state formation in societies through out human history. What stands out from this discussion is: 1) there are numerous examples of societies throughout human history that have fluidly and successfully moved through pre-state, state, and post-state in their organizing structure; 2) the formation of the State in any given society is not the culmination of human “progress” — this narrative is ultimately the product of chauvinistic and patriarchal forms of thought, an attempt to justify the genocidal current that runs through any defense of the State as the ultimate form of human organization. As Peter demonstrates in this work, the now common view of the State, and our resistance (or lack of) to State power, is tied to these widespread assumptions. The sooner we recognize the faults in that line of thinking, the better off we will be in organizing and adequately expanding our use of tactics in dismantling the State, as well the logic of Capital the State defends and imposes upon us. Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist, activist, and the author of numerous books and essays relating to the subjects of anarchism and resistance movements, as well as historical analysis of early state formation in human societies. Some of his works include ‘What is Democracy?,’ ‘How Nonviolence Protects the State,’ ‘Anarchy Works,’ ‘The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy,’ and ‘Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation.’ Peter currently resides in Spain.Episode Notes:- Purchase an affordable and well-designed copy of ‘How Nonviolence Protects The State’ from Detritus Books: http://bit.ly/HowNonviolence- Purchase ‘Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation’ from AK Press: http://bit.ly/WorshippingPower- Much of much Peter’s work can be found here: http://bit.ly/PeterGelderloos- The songs featured in this episode are “Tomorrow” and “Army of Fear” by Lorn from the album Nothing Else.- WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON- DONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALKo-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI- DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837- FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE- NEWSLETTER: http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter- SOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with anarchist, activist, and writer Peter Gelderloos. Peter is the author of numerous books, two of which we examine in this interview — ‘How Nonviolence Protects The State’ and ’Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation.’ In this discussion, I ask Peter to examine the most lauded nonviolent movements in recent history: the anti-colonial movement in India in the early 20th century (in which Mahatma Gandhi became well known for his use of nonviolent resistance against British rule) and the civil rights and anti-war movements in the United States in the 1950s through the 1970s. As Peter elaborates in his book ‘How Nonviolence Protects The State,’ nonviolence and pacifism in general severely limit resistance movements in adequately and seriously upending and defending against entrenched systems of oppression and violence — the State being the ultimate manifestation of this in the world today (and through out much of human history, as we explore later). We get at the root of his critique of nonviolence, and attempt to clarify his position on this subject. In the later half of this episode, we move onto his most recent book ‘Worshiping Power,’ in which Peter examines early state formation in societies through out human history. What stands out from this discussion is: 1) there are numerous examples of societies throughout human history that have fluidly and successfully moved through pre-state, state, and post-state in their organizing structure; 2) the formation of the State in any given society is not the culmination of human “progress” — this narrative is ultimately the product of chauvinistic and patriarchal forms of thought, an attempt to justify the genocidal current that runs through any defense of the State as the ultimate form of human organization. As Peter demonstrates in this work, the now common view of the State, and our resistance (or lack of) to State power, is tied to these widespread assumptions. The sooner we recognize the faults in that line of thinking, the better off we will be in organizing and adequately expanding our use of tactics in dismantling the State, as well the logic of Capital the State defends and imposes upon us. Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist, activist, and the author of numerous books and essays relating to the subjects of anarchism and resistance movements, as well as historical analysis of early state formation in human societies. Some of his works include ‘What is Democracy?,’ ‘How Nonviolence Protects the State,’ ‘Anarchy Works,’ ‘The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy,’ and ‘Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation.’ Peter currently resides in Spain. Episode Notes: - Purchase an affordable and well-designed copy of ‘How Nonviolence Protects The State’ from Detritus Books: <a href="http://bit.ly/HowNonviolence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/HowNonviolence</a> - Purchase ‘Worshipping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation’ from AK Press: <a href="http://bit.ly/WorshippingPower" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/WorshippingPower</a> - Much of much Peter’s work can be found here: <a href="http://bit.ly/PeterGelderloos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/PeterGelderloos</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Tomorrow” and “Army of Fear” by Lorn from the album Nothing Else. - WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> - DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> Ko-Fi: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI</a> - DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 - FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> - NEWSLETTER: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter</a> - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#166 | How Nonviolence Protects The State: An Analysis Of Early State Formation w/ Peter Gelderloos

Richard Heinberg

In this episode, I speak with Richard Heinberg — Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels.▴ We examine Richard’s recent essay “Our Bonus Decade,” in which he examines the role peak oil played in the 2008 financial crisis and what the long-term consequences will be as a result of the fossil fuel industry’s transition to unconventional oil production this past decade. In our examination of the themes presented Richard’s recent essay “Our Bonus Decade,” Richard discusses the role skyrocketing oil prices played in the financial crisis of 2008 and how this crisis coincided with a broader shift to unconventional fossil fuel production in our society, including an increased reliance on exceedingly destructive extractive methods such as fracking and tar sand oil extraction (like in Alberta, Canada). What will our civilization’s reliance on fossil fuels mean in the coming years as we come up against not only peak oil production — but also abrupt climate disruption and widespread ecological collapse, in great part as a result of our reliance on fossil fuels these past several centuries? Richard examines this question, and more, in this episode.Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books, including ‘Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines,’ ‘The End of Growth,’ and most recently ‘Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy’ co-authored with David Fridley. Richard is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels.▴▴Source: http://bit.ly/RHaboutEpisode Notes:- Read Richard’s essay “Our Bonus Decade”: http://bit.ly/OurBonusDecade- Learn more about Richard and his work at his website: http://richardheinberg.com- Learn more about the Post Carbon Institute here: https://www.postcarbon.org- Richard mentions: https://www.resilience.org- The songs featured in this episode are “Relentless Drag (Mike Slott Remix)” and “And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix)” by Shigeto from the album Full Circle Remixes.- WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON- DONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALKo-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI- DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837- FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE- NEWSLETTER: http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter- SOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with Richard Heinberg — Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels.▴ We examine Richard’s recent essay “Our Bonus Decade,” in which he examines the role peak oil played in the 2008 financial crisis and what the long-term consequences will be as a result of the fossil fuel industry’s transition to unconventional oil production this past decade. In our examination of the themes presented Richard’s recent essay “Our Bonus Decade,” Richard discusses the role skyrocketing oil prices played in the financial crisis of 2008 and how this crisis coincided with a broader shift to unconventional fossil fuel production in our society, including an increased reliance on exceedingly destructive extractive methods such as fracking and tar sand oil extraction (like in Alberta, Canada). What will our civilization’s reliance on fossil fuels mean in the coming years as we come up against not only peak oil production — but also abrupt climate disruption and widespread ecological collapse, in great part as a result of our reliance on fossil fuels these past several centuries? Richard examines this question, and more, in this episode. Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books, including ‘Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines,’ ‘The End of Growth,’ and most recently ‘Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy’ co-authored with David Fridley. Richard is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels.▴ ▴Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/RHabout" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/RHabout</a> Episode Notes: - Read Richard’s essay “Our Bonus Decade”: <a href="http://bit.ly/OurBonusDecade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/OurBonusDecade</a> - Learn more about Richard and his work at his website: <a href="http://richardheinberg.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://richardheinberg.com</a> - Learn more about the Post Carbon Institute here: <a href="https://www.postcarbon.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.postcarbon.org</a> - Richard mentions: <a href="https://www.resilience.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.resilience.org</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Relentless Drag (Mike Slott Remix)” and “And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix)” by Shigeto from the album Full Circle Remixes. - WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> - DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> Ko-Fi: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI</a> - DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 - FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> - NEWSLETTER: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter</a> - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#164 | Our Bonus Decade: Peak Oil & The Unmaking Of The Infinite Growth Paradigm w/ Richard Heinberg

Dougald Hine

[Intro: 11:55 | Outro: 1:31:02]In this episode, I speak with Dark Mountain Project co-founder and writer Dougald Hine. We discuss his new writing series ‘Notes From Underground,’ published weekly at Bella Caledonia, that explores "the deep context of the new climate movements that have surfaced since mid-2018." As Dougald notes in his article ‘Al Gore Didn’t Want You to Panic,’ the first of his series at Bella Caledonia: “What kind of process is it, then, that has been underway this past year? Here’s what I’ve been picking up from the people I meet, the audiences I speak to and the stories that come back to me: on a scale not seen before, people are having an encounter with climate change not as a problem that can be solved or managed, made to go away, or reconciled with some existing arc of progress, but as a dark knowledge that calls our path into question, that starts to burn away the stories we were told and the trajectories our lives were meant to follow, the entitlements we were brought up to believe we had, our assumptions about the shape of history, the kind of world we were born into and our place within it.” (http://bit.ly/34lnMwl)In this discussion, we explore this uncharted territory that we have collectively entered into, to which Dougald has rightfully defined as “some kind of initiatory process.” What does it mean, in a time of compounding and accelerating crises (climatologically, ecologically, socially), to undergo a process of initiatory rites? For those of us that are cognizant of the general spirit of the times we are in, what can we do to provide the resources, spaces, and structures to further grapple with the “dark material we were carrying all along?” Dougald and I explore this territory in this episode. Dougald Hine is the co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project, and the founder of Spacemakers. In the summer of 2019, after ten years with Dark Mountain, Dougald handed over his editorial and organizational responsibilities. He is currently focusing on writing and his latest project ‘a school called HOME,’ made in collaboration with his partner Anna Björkman. Dougald grew up in the north-east of England, and is now settled in central Sweden. [The episode also features a discussion between Elliot Robinson (the question featured in the introduction), social anthropologist Dr. Khalil Avi (featured in episode #220: http://bit.ly/LBWavi), and permaculture designer Tao Orion (author of ‘Beyond the War on Invasive Species’: http://bit.ly/2DE8WFA). This discussion can also be found here: http://bit.ly/elliot-tao-avi]Episode Notes:- Read Dougald’s ‘Notes From Underground’ series at Bella Caledonia: http://bit.ly/2Ds76r6- Learn more about his work at his website: http://dougald.nu- Learn more about his project ‘a school called HOME’: https://aschoolcalledhome.org- Learn more about The Dark Mountain Project: https://dark-mountain.net- The songs featured in this episode are “Birds of Paradise” and “Steps and Numbers” by The Appleseed Cast from the album Low Level Owl, Vol. 1.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 11:55 | Outro: 1:31:02] In this episode, I speak with Dark Mountain Project co-founder and writer Dougald Hine. We discuss his new writing series ‘Notes From Underground,’ published weekly at Bella Caledonia, that explores "the deep context of the new climate movements that have surfaced since mid-2018." As Dougald notes in his article ‘Al Gore Didn’t Want You to Panic,’ the first of his series at Bella Caledonia: “What kind of process is it, then, that has been underway this past year? Here’s what I’ve been picking up from the people I meet, the audiences I speak to and the stories that come back to me: on a scale not seen before, people are having an encounter with climate change not as a problem that can be solved or managed, made to go away, or reconciled with some existing arc of progress, but as a dark knowledge that calls our path into question, that starts to burn away the stories we were told and the trajectories our lives were meant to follow, the entitlements we were brought up to believe we had, our assumptions about the shape of history, the kind of world we were born into and our place within it.” (<a href="http://bit.ly/34lnMwl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/34lnMwl</a>) In this discussion, we explore this uncharted territory that we have collectively entered into, to which Dougald has rightfully defined as “some kind of initiatory process.” What does it mean, in a time of compounding and accelerating crises (climatologically, ecologically, socially), to undergo a process of initiatory rites? For those of us that are cognizant of the general spirit of the times we are in, what can we do to provide the resources, spaces, and structures to further grapple with the “dark material we were carrying all along?” Dougald and I explore this territory in this episode. Dougald Hine is the co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project, and the founder of Spacemakers. In the summer of 2019, after ten years with Dark Mountain, Dougald handed over his editorial and organizational responsibilities. He is currently focusing on writing and his latest project ‘a school called HOME,’ made in collaboration with his partner Anna Björkman. Dougald grew up in the north-east of England, and is now settled in central Sweden.  [The episode also features a discussion between Elliot Robinson (the question featured in the introduction), social anthropologist Dr. Khalil Avi (featured in episode #220: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWavi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWavi</a>), and permaculture designer Tao Orion (author of ‘Beyond the War on Invasive Species’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2DE8WFA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2DE8WFA</a>). This discussion can also be found here: <a href="http://bit.ly/elliot-tao-avi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/elliot-tao-avi</a>] Episode Notes: - Read Dougald’s ‘Notes From Underground’ series at Bella Caledonia: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Ds76r6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Ds76r6</a> - Learn more about his work at his website: <a href="http://dougald.nu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://dougald.nu</a> - Learn more about his project ‘a school called HOME’: <a href="https://aschoolcalledhome.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://aschoolcalledhome.org</a> - Learn more about The Dark Mountain Project: <a href="https://dark-mountain.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://dark-mountain.net</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Birds of Paradise” and “Steps and Numbers” by The Appleseed Cast from the album Low Level Owl, Vol. 1. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#222 | Dark Materials: They Didn't Want You To Panic w/ Dougald Hine

Joe Brewer

[Intro: 9:56 | Book Pre-sale: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr]In this episode, I speak with Joe Brewer — change strategist, complexity researcher, cognitive scientist, and evangelist for the field of culture design. We discuss living regeneratively in the COVID-19 pandemic and the message Gaia is sending in the midst of this crisis, community resilience in the age of planetary collapse, the Earth Regenerators study group, and the Earth Regeneration Fund and the "Regenerative Death Clause" as presented in his recent essay ‘A “Regenerative Death Clause” for Coronavirus.’“This fund becomes a mechanism for removing land from speculative markets and establishing around it the safeguards enabled by land trusts and cooperative land banks. It de-risks other investments by creating tracking and validation systems for the regenerative actions that begin to flow around the work of people who join the Earth regeneration effort.I am thinking of a specific way that this vision might materialize in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Imagine having a “Regenerative Death Clause” in your will that declares if you die from the Coronavirus a designated amount of money is gifted to the Earth Regeneration Fund. This enables you to keep the money if you survive. But if you become really sick and realize the end is near, it will enable you to experience your death as part of a great rebirth of life on Earth with the landscape regeneration enabled by your dying wish.” (https://bit.ly/2R8doDR)Joe Brewer has a background in physics, math, philosophy, atmospheric science, complexity research, and cognitive linguistics. Awakened to the threat of human-induced climate disruption while pursuing a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, he switched fields and began to work with scholars in the behavioral and cognitive sciences with the hope of helping create large-scale behavior change at the level of global civilization. Joe and his family currently live in Barichara, Colombia.Episode Notes:- Read ‘A “Regenerative Death Clause” for Coronavirus’: https://bit.ly/2R8doDR- Join the Earth Regenerators study group: https://earth-regenerators.mn.co- Follow Joe on Medium: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer- The song featured in this episode is “I’ll Be Seeing You” by Billie Holiday from her self-titled album.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 9:56 | Book Pre-sale: <a href="http://bit.ly/ORBITgr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ORBITgr</a>] In this episode, I speak with Joe Brewer — change strategist, complexity researcher, cognitive scientist, and evangelist for the field of culture design. We discuss living regeneratively in the COVID-19 pandemic and the message Gaia is sending in the midst of this crisis, community resilience in the age of planetary collapse, the Earth Regenerators study group, and the Earth Regeneration Fund and the "Regenerative Death Clause" as presented in his recent essay ‘A “Regenerative Death Clause” for Coronavirus.’ “This fund becomes a mechanism for removing land from speculative markets and establishing around it the safeguards enabled by land trusts and cooperative land banks. It de-risks other investments by creating tracking and validation systems for the regenerative actions that begin to flow around the work of people who join the Earth regeneration effort. I am thinking of a specific way that this vision might materialize in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Imagine having a “Regenerative Death Clause” in your will that declares if you die from the Coronavirus a designated amount of money is gifted to the Earth Regeneration Fund. This enables you to keep the money if you survive. But if you become really sick and realize the end is near, it will enable you to experience your death as part of a great rebirth of life on Earth with the landscape regeneration enabled by your dying wish.” (<a href="https://bit.ly/2R8doDR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2R8doDR</a>) Joe Brewer has a background in physics, math, philosophy, atmospheric science, complexity research, and cognitive linguistics. Awakened to the threat of human-induced climate disruption while pursuing a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, he switched fields and began to work with scholars in the behavioral and cognitive sciences with the hope of helping create large-scale behavior change at the level of global civilization. Joe and his family currently live in Barichara, Colombia. Episode Notes: - Read ‘A “Regenerative Death Clause” for Coronavirus’: <a href="https://bit.ly/2R8doDR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2R8doDR</a> - Join the Earth Regenerators study group: <a href="https://earth-regenerators.mn.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://earth-regenerators.mn.co</a> - Follow Joe on Medium: <a href="https://medium.com/@joe_brewer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@joe_brewer</a> - The song featured in this episode is “I’ll Be Seeing You” by Billie Holiday from her self-titled album. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#240 | Regenerative Death Clause: Culture Design & Coronavirus, A Message From Gaia w/ Joe Brewer

Barbara Cecil

[Intro: 2:50]In this episode, I speak with Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, co-authors of the ‘How Then Shall We Live?’ series published at Truthout. An excerpt:’What I've learned is when you really listen, and I mean go really quiet — put all the mental jargon aside and just get really quiet and really, really humble and really listen to the Earth — then I believe that each one of us is going to get our own personal marching orders of “here's what you're going to do, here's what I need you to do.” That's where I've gotten my messages to go to Iraq, to do the book that I did with 'The End of Ice,’ and so many other big decisions in my life — and small ones. When I go out there, I listen and I get this clear message, and I always know what to do. And I really believe that now is that time for people to — don't run around and panic. Don't light your hair on fire. Don't go out and see what other ten more things you can do, or how many articles you can forward and all this. But just stop and get really, really quiet and touch down into the Earth and really listen and see what comes up into your heart. When you ask: “What is it that I need to do to really serve this planet?" — because I think if we do that, and in the proper context of understanding that it is too late…. You're not going to get all that heat out of the oceans. The oceans have absorbed ninety-three percent of the heat we've put into the atmosphere. That heat is staying there and it's increasing and it's not going to go away. We're not going to turn this thing around. In the context of knowing the great loss that's now upon us what is the most important thing for me to do? And for some people it might be "I need to play music,” and that's great because God knows we need music right now. And for some people it might mean "I'm going to write a book.” Barbara and my good friend Colin MacIntosh just went and got arrested, and he's in Extinction Rebellion. All power to him. To other people it might mean we're going to go shut this fucking shit down once and for all. Great. Please do. But my point is that if you really listen in closely and get that call for what you need to do, and understand that it's in the context that we really have nothing left to lose — I would argue that that's going to generate an activism and actions taken from love that could never happen in the context of "oh do this because this book tells you to do it,” or "go to this march because we're organizing it,” and "we have a permit on this date we're going to do this….” I'm talking about doing things way more radical and way further outside of the box than a lot of this stuff that we see happening right now. I'm talking about real risk.’ Barbara Cecil is the author of ‘Coming Into Your Own: A Woman's Guide Through Life Transitions.’ Barbara Cecil’s Master’s degree in speech communication and human relations has supported her in her calling to assist individuals, groups, teams, and organizations toward the full manifestation of their creative potential. Dahr Jamail is an award-winning journalist who (formerly) reported on climate disruption and environmental issues for the online publication Truthout. Dahr is the author of multiple books, including ‘The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.' Episode Notes:- Read the transcipt of this interview: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cecil-jamail- Read Barbara and Dahr's 'How Then Shall We Live?' series: http://bit.ly/2M2g9Ek- Barbara's work: http://endingsandbeginnings.com- Dahr's work: http://www.dahrjamail.net- The song featured is “Wolves” by Down Like Silver from their self-titled EP.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 2:50] In this episode, I speak with Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, co-authors of the ‘How Then Shall We Live?’ series published at Truthout. An excerpt: ’What I've learned is when you really listen, and I mean go really quiet — put all the mental jargon aside and just get really quiet and really, really humble and really listen to the Earth — then I believe that each one of us is going to get our own personal marching orders of “here's what you're going to do, here's what I need you to do.” That's where I've gotten my messages to go to Iraq, to do the book that I did with 'The End of Ice,’ and so many other big decisions in my life — and small ones. When I go out there, I listen and I get this clear message, and I always know what to do. And I really believe that now is that time for people to — don't run around and panic. Don't light your hair on fire. Don't go out and see what other ten more things you can do, or how many articles you can forward and all this. But just stop and get really, really quiet and touch down into the Earth and really listen and see what comes up into your heart. When you ask: “What is it that I need to do to really serve this planet?" — because I think if we do that, and in the proper context of understanding that it is too late…. You're not going to get all that heat out of the oceans. The oceans have absorbed ninety-three percent of the heat we've put into the atmosphere. That heat is staying there and it's increasing and it's not going to go away. We're not going to turn this thing around. In the context of knowing the great loss that's now upon us what is the most important thing for me to do? And for some people it might be "I need to play music,” and that's great because God knows we need music right now. And for some people it might mean "I'm going to write a book.” Barbara and my good friend Colin MacIntosh just went and got arrested, and he's in Extinction Rebellion. All power to him. To other people it might mean we're going to go shut this fucking shit down once and for all. Great. Please do. But my point is that if you really listen in closely and get that call for what you need to do, and understand that it's in the context that we really have nothing left to lose — I would argue that that's going to generate an activism and actions taken from love that could never happen in the context of "oh do this because this book tells you to do it,” or "go to this march because we're organizing it,” and "we have a permit on this date we're going to do this….” I'm talking about doing things way more radical and way further outside of the box than a lot of this stuff that we see happening right now. I'm talking about real risk.’ Barbara Cecil is the author of ‘Coming Into Your Own: A Woman's Guide Through Life Transitions.’ Barbara Cecil’s Master’s degree in speech communication and human relations has supported her in her calling to assist individuals, groups, teams, and organizations toward the full manifestation of their creative potential. Dahr Jamail is an award-winning journalist who (formerly) reported on climate disruption and environmental issues for the online publication Truthout. Dahr is the author of multiple books, including ‘The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.' Episode Notes: - Read the transcipt of this interview: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cecil-jamail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cecil-jamail</a> - Read Barbara and Dahr's 'How Then Shall We Live?' series: <a href="http://bit.ly/2M2g9Ek" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2M2g9Ek</a> - Barbara's work: <a href="http://endingsandbeginnings.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://endingsandbeginnings.com</a> - Dahr's work: <a href="http://www.dahrjamail.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.dahrjamail.net</a> - The song featured is “Wolves” by Down Like Silver from their self-titled EP. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#215 | Transitions: There Is Infinite Hope, But Not For Us w/ Barbara Cecil & Dahr Jamail

Dmitry Orlov

[INTRO: 10:01]In this episode, I speak with engineer and writer Dmitry Orlov. I ask Dmitry to provide an overview of the ongoing collapse of the United States empire on the geopolitical, economic, and political fronts, since our first interview recorded and released last year. As Dmitry explains in this interview, the United States is facing collapse. The U.S. is in massive debt, and wholly relies on its global military presence to maintain the dominance of the dollar — a situation in which we have to ask the question: how long before that, too, fails? Decades of United States global hegemony is being successfully countered by other global powers, namely Russia, although in a very different fashion from how the United States has traditionally exerted geopolitical influence up to the present moment. Why, and how, has this happened? Dmitry lays out the interrelating factors that are contributing to America’s faltering influence on the global stage, even as the U.S. Empire becomes increasingly belligerent towards other nations, whether ally or foe, as it seeks to maintain its place at the top of the global economic and political order. I ask Dmitry to go over the faltering shale oil industry and energy production in the United States; the failed attempt by the U.S. government, under the leadership and direction of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, to instigate a coup in Venezuela (as of the recording and release of this episode); the forced expulsion of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (and possible extradition to the U.S.); Russia’s growing economic prominence and geopolitical influence in relation to the United States; the history of the Ukraine’s deep and complicated relationship with the USSR, and more recently the United States; and the overwhelming social collapse we are witnessing in the United States, manifesting in widespread drug addiction, mental illness, political division, and hypernationalism. Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, Internet commerce, network security and advertising. He is a prolific writer, and  the author of several books, including ‘Reinventing Collapse,’ ‘The Five Stages of Collapse,’ and most recently ‘Collapse and the Good Life.’Episode Notes:- Follow Dmitry’s work at his blog: https://cluborlov.blogspot.com- Support Dmitry’s work and read his supporter-only essays at: https://www.patreon.com/orlov/posts- Or, support him at: https://www.subscribestar.com/orlov- Purchase Dmitry’s books: http://bit.ly/DmitryOrlov- I mention the Saker interview with Dmitry on the Ukraine: http://bit.ly/2PJXvBe- The songs featured in this episode are “Will I See You Again” and “Waterlily” by Onra from Chinioiseries, Pt. 3. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[INTRO: 10:01] In this episode, I speak with engineer and writer Dmitry Orlov. I ask Dmitry to provide an overview of the ongoing collapse of the United States empire on the geopolitical, economic, and political fronts, since our first interview recorded and released last year. As Dmitry explains in this interview, the United States is facing collapse. The U.S. is in massive debt, and wholly relies on its global military presence to maintain the dominance of the dollar — a situation in which we have to ask the question: how long before that, too, fails? Decades of United States global hegemony is being successfully countered by other global powers, namely Russia, although in a very different fashion from how the United States has traditionally exerted geopolitical influence up to the present moment. Why, and how, has this happened? Dmitry lays out the interrelating factors that are contributing to America’s faltering influence on the global stage, even as the U.S. Empire becomes increasingly belligerent towards other nations, whether ally or foe, as it seeks to maintain its place at the top of the global economic and political order. I ask Dmitry to go over the faltering shale oil industry and energy production in the United States; the failed attempt by the U.S. government, under the leadership and direction of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, to instigate a coup in Venezuela (as of the recording and release of this episode); the forced expulsion of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (and possible extradition to the U.S.); Russia’s growing economic prominence and geopolitical influence in relation to the United States; the history of the Ukraine’s deep and complicated relationship with the USSR, and more recently the United States; and the overwhelming social collapse we are witnessing in the United States, manifesting in widespread drug addiction, mental illness, political division, and hypernationalism. Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, USSR, into an academic family, and emigrated to the US in the mid-1970s. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Linguistics, and has worked in a variety of fields, including high-energy physics, Internet commerce, network security and advertising. He is a prolific writer, and the author of several books, including ‘Reinventing Collapse,’ ‘The Five Stages of Collapse,’ and most recently ‘Collapse and the Good Life.’ Episode Notes: - Follow Dmitry’s work at his blog: <a href="https://cluborlov.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cluborlov.blogspot.com</a> - Support Dmitry’s work and read his supporter-only essays at: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/orlov/posts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/orlov/posts</a> - Or, support him at: <a href="https://www.subscribestar.com/orlov" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.subscribestar.com/orlov</a> - Purchase Dmitry’s books: <a href="http://bit.ly/DmitryOrlov" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/DmitryOrlov</a> - I mention the Saker interview with Dmitry on the Ukraine: <a href="http://bit.ly/2PJXvBe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2PJXvBe</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Will I See You Again” and “Waterlily” by Onra from Chinioiseries, Pt. 3. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#192 | America Faded Vol. II: The Precipitous Decline Of The U.S. Empire w/ Dmitry Orlov

WATCH THE VIDEO VERSON OF THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/qiFuMwQ4oAwIn this joint interview with [RS], we speak with Dahr Jamail — investigative journalist and the author of ‘The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.’ After meeting Dahr for his book release at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, [RS] and I sat down with Dahr to discuss his journey writing this book. “[Dahr] embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of [climate disruption] —from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.”*In our discussion with Dahr, [RS] and I ask him to elaborate on his work in exploring the dire consequences of human-caused climate disruption, including his on-the-ground research into the rapid and accelerating impacts of climate disruption in some of the most dramatically affected places on Earth. These places include one of his favorite peaks to climb — Denali in Alaska -- as well as numerous other mountains and glaciers; Camp 41 in the Amazon Rainforest — under the stewardship of world-renowned ecologist Dr. Thomas Lovejoy; the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia — undergoing a massive die-off as a result of warming oceans and acidification. Dahr — having met a diverse set of scientists and researchers all over the world engaged in their own direct research into the impacts of climate disruption in their own respective fields — gets into the deeply felt sorrow, anger, and grief that he, and many of the scientists he interviewed for this book, are feeling in the face of the unfolding mass extinction currently underway as a result of human-caused climate disruption and ecological collapse. We discuss the enormous difficulty of adequately responding to this information, both on a personal level, and on a wider collective level, particularly within the context of an oligarchic corporate capitalist system that puts the continuation of “business as usual” above everything else.More than anything, this discussion with [RS] and Dahr is about acceptance — acceptance of the predicament we find ourselves in, as well as the tragic and sacred duty we have as conscious beings to learn to say good-bye these places and beings that are disappearing as a result of human industrial culture and its centuries long impact on the planet’s living systems. Within that space of acceptance, we can proceed into our uncertain future with maturity, purpose, and clarity. We discuss these subjects and more in this episode.*Source: http://bit.ly/TheEndOfIceEpisode Notes:- Learn more about ’The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption’ and purchase a copy: http://bit.ly/TheEndOfIce- Learn more about Dahr and his work: http://www.dahrjamail.net- Keep up to date on Dahr’s climate dispatches at Truthout: http://bit.ly/TruthoutJamail- Read a segment of ‘The End of Ice’: http://bit.ly/2FXYMTz- The song featured in this episode is “ACT I: Sea Borne” by Dead Can Dance from the album Dionysus.- WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com- PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON- DONATE:Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPALKo-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI- DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837- FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN:SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUDiTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNESGoogle Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLEStitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHERRadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUBYouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE- NEWSLETTER: http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter- SOCIAL MEDIA:Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOKTwitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTERInstagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

WATCH THE VIDEO VERSON OF THIS EPISODE: <a href="https://youtu.be/qiFuMwQ4oAw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qiFuMwQ4oAw</a> In this joint interview with [RS], we speak with Dahr Jamail — investigative journalist and the author of ‘The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.’ After meeting Dahr for his book release at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, [RS] and I sat down with Dahr to discuss his journey writing this book. “[Dahr] embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of [climate disruption] —from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.”* In our discussion with Dahr, [RS] and I ask him to elaborate on his work in exploring the dire consequences of human-caused climate disruption, including his on-the-ground research into the rapid and accelerating impacts of climate disruption in some of the most dramatically affected places on Earth. These places include one of his favorite peaks to climb — Denali in Alaska -- as well as numerous other mountains and glaciers; Camp 41 in the Amazon Rainforest — under the stewardship of world-renowned ecologist Dr. Thomas Lovejoy; the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia — undergoing a massive die-off as a result of warming oceans and acidification. Dahr — having met a diverse set of scientists and researchers all over the world engaged in their own direct research into the impacts of climate disruption in their own respective fields — gets into the deeply felt sorrow, anger, and grief that he, and many of the scientists he interviewed for this book, are feeling in the face of the unfolding mass extinction currently underway as a result of human-caused climate disruption and ecological collapse. We discuss the enormous difficulty of adequately responding to this information, both on a personal level, and on a wider collective level, particularly within the context of an oligarchic corporate capitalist system that puts the continuation of “business as usual” above everything else. More than anything, this discussion with [RS] and Dahr is about acceptance — acceptance of the predicament we find ourselves in, as well as the tragic and sacred duty we have as conscious beings to learn to say good-bye these places and beings that are disappearing as a result of human industrial culture and its centuries long impact on the planet’s living systems. Within that space of acceptance, we can proceed into our uncertain future with maturity, purpose, and clarity. We discuss these subjects and more in this episode. *Source: <a href="http://bit.ly/TheEndOfIce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TheEndOfIce</a> Episode Notes: - Learn more about ’The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption’ and purchase a copy: <a href="http://bit.ly/TheEndOfIce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TheEndOfIce</a> - Learn more about Dahr and his work: <a href="http://www.dahrjamail.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.dahrjamail.net</a> - Keep up to date on Dahr’s climate dispatches at Truthout: <a href="http://bit.ly/TruthoutJamail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TruthoutJamail</a> - Read a segment of ‘The End of Ice’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2FXYMTz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2FXYMTz</a> - The song featured in this episode is “ACT I: Sea Borne” by Dead Can Dance from the album Dionysus. - WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> - PATREON: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON</a> - DONATE: Paypal: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL</a> Ko-Fi: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI</a> - DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 - FOLLOW &amp; LISTEN: SoundCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD</a> iTunes: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES</a> Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE</a> Stitcher: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER</a> RadioPublic: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB</a> YouTube: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE</a> - NEWSLETTER: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWnewsletter</a> - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK</a> Twitter: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER</a> Instagram: <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA</a>

#171 | The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness In The Path Of Climate Disruption w/ Dahr Jamail

Henry Giroux

[Intro: 7:14]In the episode, I speak with Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, and author of ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen.’How has neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of far right ideologies and populists around the world? As demonstrated in the elections of, and policies enacted by, such leaders as Donald Trump in the United States, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a “neoliberal fascism” is emerging globally. As Henry elaborates in his book ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen,’ “neoliberalism creates an all-encompassing market guided by the principles of privatization, deregulation, commodification, and the free flow of capital. Advancing these agendas, it weakens unions, radically downsizes the welfare state, and wages an assault on public services such as education, libraries, parks, energy, water, prisons, and public transportation. As the state is hollowed out, big corporations take on the functions of government, imposing severe austerity measures, redistributing wealth upward to the rich and powerful, and reinforcing a notion of society as one of winners and losers.” (http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn)  To further this point more succinctly, Henry states “neoliberalism became an incubator for a growing authoritarian populism fed largely by economic inequality.” (http://bit.ly/2Om8oL8) As societies become subsumed politically, economically, and culturally by the logic of a neoliberal ideology, the outcome is widespread social fragmentation and disintegration. This in turn has manifested into a groundswell of authoritarian and fascist politics in nations that have been traditionally defined as “open and free democratic societies.” As Henry challenges us in this interview, unless we critically address neoliberal capitalism and the impact this ideology has played in lives of countless human beings across the world, we cannot even begin to adequately understand and effectively resist this trend of rising of far right populist movements globally. Professor Henry Giroux is a regular contributor to a number of online journals including Truthout, Truthdig, and CounterPunch. He has published in journals including Social Text, Third Text, Cultural Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Theory, Culture, &amp; Society, and Monthly Review. His primary research areas are cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education.  He is particularly interested in what he calls the war on youth, the corporatization of higher education, the politics of neoliberalism, the assault on civic literacy and the collapse of public memory, public pedagogy, the educative nature of politics, and the rise of various youth movements across the globe. An internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Henry has authored, or co-authored over 65 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research.Episode Notes:- Learn more about Henry and his work: https://www.henryagiroux.com- Read Stephen Rohde’s review of ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen’ and purchase a copy: http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn- Read Henry’s op-ed ‘Neoliberalism Paved the Way for Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism’ at Truthout: http://bit.ly/2Om8oL8- The songs featured in this episode are “Professor At Large” and “Rip Kalibma God” by Marco Polo from the album Baker’s Dozen: Marco Polo.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 7:14] In the episode, I speak with Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, and author of ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen.’ How has neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of far right ideologies and populists around the world? As demonstrated in the elections of, and policies enacted by, such leaders as Donald Trump in the United States, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a “neoliberal fascism” is emerging globally. As Henry elaborates in his book ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen,’ “neoliberalism creates an all-encompassing market guided by the principles of privatization, deregulation, commodification, and the free flow of capital. Advancing these agendas, it weakens unions, radically downsizes the welfare state, and wages an assault on public services such as education, libraries, parks, energy, water, prisons, and public transportation. As the state is hollowed out, big corporations take on the functions of government, imposing severe austerity measures, redistributing wealth upward to the rich and powerful, and reinforcing a notion of society as one of winners and losers.” (<a href="http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn</a>)  To further this point more succinctly, Henry states “neoliberalism became an incubator for a growing authoritarian populism fed largely by economic inequality.” (<a href="http://bit.ly/2Om8oL8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Om8oL8</a>) As societies become subsumed politically, economically, and culturally by the logic of a neoliberal ideology, the outcome is widespread social fragmentation and disintegration. This in turn has manifested into a groundswell of authoritarian and fascist politics in nations that have been traditionally defined as “open and free democratic societies.” As Henry challenges us in this interview, unless we critically address neoliberal capitalism and the impact this ideology has played in lives of countless human beings across the world, we cannot even begin to adequately understand and effectively resist this trend of rising of far right populist movements globally. Professor Henry Giroux is a regular contributor to a number of online journals including Truthout, Truthdig, and CounterPunch. He has published in journals including Social Text, Third Text, Cultural Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Theory, Culture, &amp; Society, and Monthly Review. His primary research areas are cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education.  He is particularly interested in what he calls the war on youth, the corporatization of higher education, the politics of neoliberalism, the assault on civic literacy and the collapse of public memory, public pedagogy, the educative nature of politics, and the rise of various youth movements across the globe. An internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Henry has authored, or co-authored over 65 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research. Episode Notes: - Learn more about Henry and his work: <a href="https://www.henryagiroux.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.henryagiroux.com</a> - Read Stephen Rohde’s review of ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen’ and purchase a copy: <a href="http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn</a> - Read Henry’s op-ed ‘Neoliberalism Paved the Way for Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism’ at Truthout: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Om8oL8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Om8oL8</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Professor At Large” and “Rip Kalibma God” by Marco Polo from the album Baker’s Dozen: Marco Polo. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#214 | The Unforeseen: Neoliberal Ideology & Paving The Road Towards Fascism w/ Henry Giroux

[Intro: 10:23 | Outro: 1:38:01]In this episode, I speak with yoga practitioner, teacher, and author of ‘Practice and All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond’ Matthew Remski. As Matthew revealed in his article ‘Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories’ published at The Walrus, contemporary yoga has an appalling and pervasive sexual abuse problem. “Modern yoga has been fraught with stories of charismatic male yoga teachers who promoted their teachings as spiritually pure and later abused, or otherwise took advantage of, students who believed their mentors were gurus or saints.” (http://bit.ly/2SFaNT8) Not only is sexual misconduct and abuse an all-to-common occurrence in countless yoga studios around the world, “somatic dominance” (as Matthew has termed it) is often employed by yoga instructors to assert control over their students, creating a dynamic that leads to “trauma bonding” — a crucial process that occurs between cult leaders and their followers as a means of obscuring abuse. In this interview, Matthew explains what these dynamics look like in practice, and how these dynamics can, and do, manifest in all kinds of contexts, including within collapse-conscious activist and support groups (at least potentially). As we enter into a more climate disrupted future, various cult-like groups and charismatic figures will likely emerge to take advantage of people’s yearnings for spiritual guidance and counseling. Matthew provides much-needed insight into spotting these abusive cult dynamics in group contexts, insights that will prove to be increasingly useful in addressing the complex outcomes of the various crises manifesting in the world today.Matthew Remski writes and presents on yoga and ayurveda in the shadows of capitalism and climate change. He is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and has practiced meditation and yoga since 1996, learning from teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams. He currently facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, culture, and the social psychology of healthy communities. In all subject areas, Matthew encourages students to explore how yoga practice can resist the psychic and material dominance of neoliberalism, and the quickening pace of environmental destruction.Episode Notes:- Learn more about Matthew and his work: http://matthewremski.com- Read his article ‘Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories’ published at The Walrus: http://bit.ly/2SFaNT8- Learn more about his book ‘Practice and All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond’: http://bit.ly/2QykG2x- Learn more about and sign up for his upcoming course ‘6 Critical Problems in Modern Yoga, and How to Work with Them’: http://bit.ly/2QeJSw3- The songs featured in this episode are “Mirror Memory” and “Shells” by Teebs from the album Anicca.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 10:23 | Outro: 1:38:01] In this episode, I speak with yoga practitioner, teacher, and author of ‘Practice and All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond’ Matthew Remski. As Matthew revealed in his article ‘Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories’ published at The Walrus, contemporary yoga has an appalling and pervasive sexual abuse problem. “Modern yoga has been fraught with stories of charismatic male yoga teachers who promoted their teachings as spiritually pure and later abused, or otherwise took advantage of, students who believed their mentors were gurus or saints.” (<a href="http://bit.ly/2SFaNT8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2SFaNT8</a>) Not only is sexual misconduct and abuse an all-to-common occurrence in countless yoga studios around the world, “somatic dominance” (as Matthew has termed it) is often employed by yoga instructors to assert control over their students, creating a dynamic that leads to “trauma bonding” — a crucial process that occurs between cult leaders and their followers as a means of obscuring abuse. In this interview, Matthew explains what these dynamics look like in practice, and how these dynamics can, and do, manifest in all kinds of contexts, including within collapse-conscious activist and support groups (at least potentially). As we enter into a more climate disrupted future, various cult-like groups and charismatic figures will likely emerge to take advantage of people’s yearnings for spiritual guidance and counseling. Matthew provides much-needed insight into spotting these abusive cult dynamics in group contexts, insights that will prove to be increasingly useful in addressing the complex outcomes of the various crises manifesting in the world today. Matthew Remski writes and presents on yoga and ayurveda in the shadows of capitalism and climate change. He is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and has practiced meditation and yoga since 1996, learning from teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams. He currently facilitates programming for yoga trainings internationally, focusing on yoga philosophy, culture, and the social psychology of healthy communities. In all subject areas, Matthew encourages students to explore how yoga practice can resist the psychic and material dominance of neoliberalism, and the quickening pace of environmental destruction. Episode Notes: - Learn more about Matthew and his work: <a href="http://matthewremski.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://matthewremski.com</a> - Read his article ‘Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories’ published at The Walrus: <a href="http://bit.ly/2SFaNT8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2SFaNT8</a> - Learn more about his book ‘Practice and All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2QykG2x" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2QykG2x</a> - Learn more about and sign up for his upcoming course ‘6 Critical Problems in Modern Yoga, and How to Work with Them’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2QeJSw3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2QeJSw3</a> - The songs featured in this episode are “Mirror Memory” and “Shells” by Teebs from the album Anicca. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#227 | Somatic Dominance: Climate Collapse & The Spectre Of Cultic Yearnings w/ Matthew Remski

This is episode #200 of Last Born In The Wilderness. This is something of a highlight reel, featuring numerous segments from previous interviews I’ve conducted and released, with commentary on the underlying themes and threads that tie all this work together. This is a beast of an episode (almost four hours in length), so please take your time! This episode features segments of discussions with Silvia Federici, Dr. Gerald Horne, Shane Burley, Liyah Babayan, Stephen Jenkinson, Dahr Jamail, William Rees, Dezeray Lyn, Peter Gelderloos, Cory Morningstar, Jasper Bernes, Rhyd Wildermuth, Dr. Karla Tait, Ramon Elani, John Halstead, Charles Eisenstein, Joe Brewer, and Bayo Akomolafe. As I stated in the introduction and at the end, I will be taking a break from this project for about three weeks in total. I’ll be back July 22nd with a new episode, and back on schedule with regularly released episodes every week from then on.  Timeline:INTRO/ Peter (DROP ME A LINE): https://postpeakmedicine.com / http://www.survivorlibrary.com [4:10]1/ Silvia Federici (#106 | Caliban And The Witch: The Body In The Transition To Capitalism): http://bit.ly/LBWfederici [13:59]2/ Dr. Gerald Horne (#120 | This Is America: The Apocalypse Of Settler Colonialism): http://bit.ly/LBWhorne [26:28]3/ Shane Burley (#181 | The Violent Myth Of White Erasure: Terror In Christchurch): http://bit.ly/LBWburley2 [37:21]4/ Liyah Babayan (#131 | The Other: Genocide; Life After): http://bit.ly/LBWbabayan [48:47]5/ Stephen Jenkinson (#134 | Elderhood: Coming Of Age In Troubled Times): http://bit.ly/LBWjenkinson [1:02:07]6/ TEDxTwinFalls (Forging Connections In Perilous Times): https://youtu.be/nLxrd7_ga60 [1:14:35]7/ Dahr Jamail (#154 | Another End Of The World Is Possible: Part One): http://bit.ly/LBWjamail1 / https://youtu.be/NrkVn7TQrlA [1:17:45]8/ William Rees (#125 | Marching Toward Collapse: Biophysical Limits &amp; Our Cognitive Blindspots): http://bit.ly/LBWrees [1:26:10]9/ Dezeray Lyn (#161 | Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief; A Factor Of Evolution): http://bit.ly/LBWmadr [1:45:12]10/ Peter Gelderloos (#166 | How Nonviolence Protects The State: An Analysis Of Early State Formation): http://bit.ly/LBWgelderloos [1:55:08]11/ Cory Morningstar (#188 | For Your Consent: Climate Activism &amp; The Financialization Of Nature): http://bit.ly/LBWcorymorningstar [2:05:10]12/ Jasper Bernes (#198 | Sacrifice Zones: Between The Devil &amp; The Green New Deal): http://bit.ly/LBWbernes [2:16:40]13/ Rhyd Wildermuth (#197 | All That Is Sacred Is Profaned: Marxism, Paganism, &amp; History As Process): http://bit.ly/LBWwildermuth [2:26:35]14/ Dahr Jamail (#171 | The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness In The Path Of Climate Disruption w/ [RS]): http://bit.ly/LBWjamail / https://youtu.be/qiFuMwQ4oAw [2:32:58]15/ Dr. Karla Tait (#169 | Heal The Land, Heal The People: The Unist'ot'en Healing Center): http://bit.ly/LBWtait [2:45:35]16/ Ramon Elani (#185 | The Gods Have Fled: The Home As A Site Of Defiance Against Modernity): http://bit.ly/LBWelani [2:55:36]17/ John Halstead (#148 | The Dying God: Learning To Die In The Anthropocene): http://bit.ly/LBWhalstead [3:04:28]18/ Charles Eisenstein (#141 | Initiation: A New Story Of Climate): http://bit.ly/LBWeisenstein [3:17:16]19/ Joe Brewer (#193 | Invisible, Sacred Work: The Management Of Planetary Collapse): http://bit.ly/LBWbrewer2 [3:27:23]20/ Bayo Akomolafe (#179 | We Will Not Arrive Intact: The Times Are Urgent, Let's Slow Down): http://bit.ly/LBWakomolafe [3:33:33]OUTRO/ The song featured is “Listening Piece 1” composed by Scott Farkas (used with permission): https://youtu.be/tBvMrqmHMVk [3:42:30]WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

This is episode #200 of Last Born In The Wilderness. This is something of a highlight reel, featuring numerous segments from previous interviews I’ve conducted and released, with commentary on the underlying themes and threads that tie all this work together. This is a beast of an episode (almost four hours in length), so please take your time! This episode features segments of discussions with Silvia Federici, Dr. Gerald Horne, Shane Burley, Liyah Babayan, Stephen Jenkinson, Dahr Jamail, William Rees, Dezeray Lyn, Peter Gelderloos, Cory Morningstar, Jasper Bernes, Rhyd Wildermuth, Dr. Karla Tait, Ramon Elani, John Halstead, Charles Eisenstein, Joe Brewer, and Bayo Akomolafe. As I stated in the introduction and at the end, I will be taking a break from this project for about three weeks in total. I’ll be back July 22nd with a new episode, and back on schedule with regularly released episodes every week from then on. Timeline: INTRO/ Peter (DROP ME A LINE): <a href="https://postpeakmedicine.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://postpeakmedicine.com</a> / <a href="http://www.survivorlibrary.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.survivorlibrary.com</a> [4:10] 1/ Silvia Federici (#106 | Caliban And The Witch: The Body In The Transition To Capitalism): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfederici" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfederici</a> [13:59] 2/ Dr. Gerald Horne (#120 | This Is America: The Apocalypse Of Settler Colonialism): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWhorne" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWhorne</a> [26:28] 3/ Shane Burley (#181 | The Violent Myth Of White Erasure: Terror In Christchurch): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWburley2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWburley2</a> [37:21] 4/ Liyah Babayan (#131 | The Other: Genocide; Life After): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWbabayan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWbabayan</a> [48:47] 5/ Stephen Jenkinson (#134 | Elderhood: Coming Of Age In Troubled Times): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWjenkinson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWjenkinson</a> [1:02:07] 6/ TEDxTwinFalls (Forging Connections In Perilous Times): <a href="https://youtu.be/nLxrd7_ga60" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/nLxrd7_ga60</a> [1:14:35] 7/ Dahr Jamail (#154 | Another End Of The World Is Possible: Part One): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWjamail1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWjamail1</a> / <a href="https://youtu.be/NrkVn7TQrlA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/NrkVn7TQrlA</a> [1:17:45] 8/ William Rees (#125 | Marching Toward Collapse: Biophysical Limits &amp; Our Cognitive Blindspots): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWrees" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWrees</a> [1:26:10] 9/ Dezeray Lyn (#161 | Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief; A Factor Of Evolution): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWmadr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWmadr</a> [1:45:12] 10/ Peter Gelderloos (#166 | How Nonviolence Protects The State: An Analysis Of Early State Formation): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWgelderloos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWgelderloos</a> [1:55:08] 11/ Cory Morningstar (#188 | For Your Consent: Climate Activism &amp; The Financialization Of Nature): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWcorymorningstar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWcorymorningstar</a> [2:05:10] 12/ Jasper Bernes (#198 | Sacrifice Zones: Between The Devil &amp; The Green New Deal): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWbernes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWbernes</a> [2:16:40] 13/ Rhyd Wildermuth (#197 | All That Is Sacred Is Profaned: Marxism, Paganism, &amp; History As Process): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWwildermuth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWwildermuth</a> [2:26:35] 14/ Dahr Jamail (#171 | The End Of Ice: Bearing Witness In The Path Of Climate Disruption w/ [RS]): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWjamail" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWjamail</a> / <a href="https://youtu.be/qiFuMwQ4oAw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qiFuMwQ4oAw</a> [2:32:58] 15/ Dr. Karla Tait (#169 | Heal The Land, Heal The People: The Unist'ot'en Healing Center): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWtait" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWtait</a> [2:45:35] 16/ Ramon Elani (#185 | The Gods Have Fled: The Home As A Site Of Defiance Against Modernity): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWelani" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWelani</a> [2:55:36] 17/ John Halstead (#148 | The Dying God: Learning To Die In The Anthropocene): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWhalstead" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWhalstead</a> [3:04:28] 18/ Charles Eisenstein (#141 | Initiation: A New Story Of Climate): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWeisenstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWeisenstein</a> [3:17:16] 19/ Joe Brewer (#193 | Invisible, Sacred Work: The Management Of Planetary Collapse): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWbrewer2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWbrewer2</a> [3:27:23] 20/ Bayo Akomolafe (#179 | We Will Not Arrive Intact: The Times Are Urgent, Let's Slow Down): <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWakomolafe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWakomolafe</a> [3:33:33] OUTRO/ The song featured is “Listening Piece 1” composed by Scott Farkas (used with permission): <a href="https://youtu.be/tBvMrqmHMVk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/tBvMrqmHMVk</a> [3:42:30] WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#200 | We Live In The Orbit Of Beings Greater Than Us: A Weaving Of Threads

John Feffer

[Intro: 13:55 | Book Pre-sale: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr]In this episode, I speak with John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) at the Institute for Policy Studies. We discuss the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has had on the global economic system, as laid out in his article ‘Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization?’ published at FPIF and CounterPunch.There are plenty of adequate resources currently available on the nature of the coronavirus, including how it spreads, the common symptoms to look out for, and the demographics most likely to suffer and potentially die from exposure to it. What needs to be explored a bit more is the impacts this global pandemic has had and will continue to have on the global economic system as numerous governments respond to this public heath emergency. I ask John to provide some insight into the impacts this virus has had on globalization at large, with whole sectors of the global supply chain experiencing dramatic shortages as numerous economic sectors shut down, impeding international trade into the foreseeable future. As the impacts of this pandemic play out over the next several months (this is just the beginning, folks), the “house of cards” that is the global capitalist system is revealing how the precarious this whole arrangement really is, with systemic issues starkly presenting themselves as medical staff struggle to adequately respond the influx of infected patients in hospitals and clinics around the globe and stock markets crash. John compares the responses of each nation grappling with this crisis, with some of his harshest criticism saved for the United States and the Trump Administration in their astounding incompetency and lack of preparedness in the face of this crisis. John also provides some historical context, pointing to the Spanish Flu epidemic preceding the end of WWI, killing up to 50 million people: “This last pandemic was one of the factors behind the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. Prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the world had never been more tightly connected with steamships, trains, and the telegraph serving as the connective tissue. Trade as a proportion of GDP stood at 14 percent on the eve of the war. The devastation of World War I followed by the flu epidemic dealt a heavy blow to world trade and economic integration. The global economic depression of the 1920s, the rise of various types of nationalism, and a second world war ensured that, by 1945, trade as a proportion of GDP had dropped to a mere 5 percent.” (http://bit.ly/fpifcorona)John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is also the author of the dystopian novel ‘Frostlands,’ the stand-alone sequel to ‘Splinterlands.’ He is a senior associate at the Asia Institute in Seoul and has been both a Writing Fellow at Provisions Library in Washington, DC and a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University.Episode Notes:- Read ‘Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization?’: http://bit.ly/fpifcorona- Learn more about John and his work: http://www.johnfeffer.com / https://fpif.org / https://ips-dc.org - Purchase John’s books: http://bit.ly/3d3lSFy- Some educational materials on the coronavirus: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus / https://youtu.be/cZFhjMQrVts / http://bit.ly/2vtwVXG / http://bit.ly/33mLxok / http://bit.ly/38PbSw9- Songs featured in this episode are “Curfew” and “Blood Moon” by Fatima Al Qadiri from the album Brute.WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 13:55 | Book Pre-sale: <a href="http://bit.ly/ORBITgr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ORBITgr</a>] In this episode, I speak with John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) at the Institute for Policy Studies. We discuss the impact the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has had on the global economic system, as laid out in his article ‘Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization?’ published at FPIF and CounterPunch. There are plenty of adequate resources currently available on the nature of the coronavirus, including how it spreads, the common symptoms to look out for, and the demographics most likely to suffer and potentially die from exposure to it. What needs to be explored a bit more is the impacts this global pandemic has had and will continue to have on the global economic system as numerous governments respond to this public heath emergency. I ask John to provide some insight into the impacts this virus has had on globalization at large, with whole sectors of the global supply chain experiencing dramatic shortages as numerous economic sectors shut down, impeding international trade into the foreseeable future. As the impacts of this pandemic play out over the next several months (this is just the beginning, folks), the “house of cards” that is the global capitalist system is revealing how the precarious this whole arrangement really is, with systemic issues starkly presenting themselves as medical staff struggle to adequately respond the influx of infected patients in hospitals and clinics around the globe and stock markets crash. John compares the responses of each nation grappling with this crisis, with some of his harshest criticism saved for the United States and the Trump Administration in their astounding incompetency and lack of preparedness in the face of this crisis. John also provides some historical context, pointing to the Spanish Flu epidemic preceding the end of WWI, killing up to 50 million people:  “This last pandemic was one of the factors behind the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. Prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the world had never been more tightly connected with steamships, trains, and the telegraph serving as the connective tissue. Trade as a proportion of GDP stood at 14 percent on the eve of the war.  The devastation of World War I followed by the flu epidemic dealt a heavy blow to world trade and economic integration. The global economic depression of the 1920s, the rise of various types of nationalism, and a second world war ensured that, by 1945, trade as a proportion of GDP had dropped to a mere 5 percent.” (<a href="http://bit.ly/fpifcorona" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/fpifcorona</a>) John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is also the author of the dystopian novel ‘Frostlands,’ the stand-alone sequel to ‘Splinterlands.’ He is a senior associate at the Asia Institute in Seoul and has been both a Writing Fellow at Provisions Library in Washington, DC and a PanTech fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University. Episode Notes: - Read ‘Will the Coronavirus Kill Globalization?’: <a href="http://bit.ly/fpifcorona" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/fpifcorona</a> - Learn more about John and his work: <a href="http://www.johnfeffer.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.johnfeffer.com</a> / <a href="https://fpif.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fpif.org</a> / <a href="https://ips-dc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ips-dc.org</a> - Purchase John’s books: <a href="http://bit.ly/3d3lSFy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3d3lSFy</a> - Some educational materials on the coronavirus: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus</a> / <a href="https://youtu.be/cZFhjMQrVts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/cZFhjMQrVts</a> / <a href="http://bit.ly/2vtwVXG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2vtwVXG</a> / <a href="http://bit.ly/33mLxok" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/33mLxok</a> / <a href="http://bit.ly/38PbSw9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/38PbSw9</a> - Songs featured in this episode are “Curfew” and “Blood Moon” by Fatima Al Qadiri from the album Brute. WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#237 | House Of Cards: COVID-19 & The Blow To Globalization w/ John Feffer

Joshua Birchall

[Intro: 6:36]This interview with anthropologist and linguist Joshua Birchall was recorded in his office at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Belém, Brazil. Joshua has been doing field work in Indigenous communities in the Brazilian state of Rondônia and in parts of Bolivia for over a decade, documenting dying languages before they completely disappear from the human collective for good.Languages are disappearing at an increasing and alarming rate, with Indigenous communities in Amazonia at the forefront of this trend. As Joshua explains in this discussion, of the 26-or-so known languages in the region he does field work in, two-thirds of those languages have less than 50 speakers left. This indicates that one of the most linguistically diverse regions on the planet is on the verge of losing a majority of its speakers within a few generations, if that. Along with documenting these languages for their continued use and preservation, Joshua has a deep understanding of the role language plays in the cultural makeup of the communities he researches, including the internal and external forces that are threatening their disappearance. I ask him to describe what those pressures are, and how they fit within the broader history of colonialism, capitalist development, and environmental destruction in the region.Mirna Wabi-Sabi set this interview up and none of this would have been possible without her. Learn more about her work: https://medium.com/mirna-wabi-sabiEpisode Notes:- Learn more about the peoples and languages Joshua has spent the most time with — the Oro Win, Wari’, and Aikanã: http://bit.ly/37428xi / http://bit.ly/39hpG3c / http://bit.ly/31AlEQW- Learn more about the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: https://museu-goeldi.br- The song featured in this episode is “Deixa A Gira Girar” by j g b from the 1Löffelchen EP: https://drosssel.bandcamp.com/album/1l-ffelchen- Photo featured in title card was taken by Andy Richter: https://www.andyrichterphoto.comWEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledropEVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 6:36] This interview with anthropologist and linguist Joshua Birchall was recorded in his office at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Belém, Brazil. Joshua has been doing field work in Indigenous communities in the Brazilian state of Rondônia and in parts of Bolivia for over a decade, documenting dying languages before they completely disappear from the human collective for good. Languages are disappearing at an increasing and alarming rate, with Indigenous communities in Amazonia at the forefront of this trend. As Joshua explains in this discussion, of the 26-or-so known languages in the region he does field work in, two-thirds of those languages have less than 50 speakers left. This indicates that one of the most linguistically diverse regions on the planet is on the verge of losing a majority of its speakers within a few generations, if that. Along with documenting these languages for their continued use and preservation, Joshua has a deep understanding of the role language plays in the cultural makeup of the communities he researches, including the internal and external forces that are threatening their disappearance. I ask him to describe what those pressures are, and how they fit within the broader history of colonialism, capitalist development, and environmental destruction in the region. Mirna Wabi-Sabi set this interview up and none of this would have been possible without her. Learn more about her work: <a href="https://medium.com/mirna-wabi-sabi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medium.com/mirna-wabi-sabi</a> Episode Notes: - Learn more about the peoples and languages Joshua has spent the most time with — the Oro Win, Wari’, and Aikanã: <a href="http://bit.ly/37428xi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/37428xi</a> / <a href="http://bit.ly/39hpG3c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/39hpG3c</a> / <a href="http://bit.ly/31AlEQW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/31AlEQW</a> - Learn more about the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: <a href="https://museu-goeldi.br" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://museu-goeldi.br</a> - The song featured in this episode is “Deixa A Gira Girar” by j g b from the 1Löffelchen EP: <a href="https://drosssel.bandcamp.com/album/1l-ffelchen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://drosssel.bandcamp.com/album/1l-ffelchen</a> - Photo featured in title card was taken by Andy Richter: <a href="https://www.andyrichterphoto.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.andyrichterphoto.com</a> WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or <a href="http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop</a> EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#231 | Before It Is Lost: Indigenous Identity & Language In Amazonia w/ Joshua Birchall

Robert Forte

[INTRO: 11:06]In this episode, I speak with psychedelic scholar, editor, publisher, and researcher Robert Forte. For over three decades, Robert has collaborated with some of the most influential and well-known figures within the psychedelic movement, including R. Gordon Wasson, Timothy Leary, Stanislav Grof, and Alexander Shulgin, to name a few. In this discussion with Robert, we reference a recent article published by Marine Corp Times, titled ‘Can LSD and magic mushrooms help win wars? This Marine officer says ‘yes’.’ As the article states, the “military should join the growing list of psychedelic beneficiaries […] to become “stronger, faster and smarter than our adversaries”” through the microdosing of psychedelic compounds, like LSD and psilocybin, in order to counter “the nearly-insurmountable task of analyzing a rapidly-growing tidal wave of analytical data that, with today’s advances in technology, will only continue to expose cognitive shortfalls.” (http://bit.ly/2JfKIq1) As the use of psychedelics enters the public discourse again, and as we continue to see the normalization of their use by Silicon Valley corporate executives and others to “significantly heighten alertness, creativity, and problem solving,” we have to step back and examine the ways psychedelic use is actually reinforcing the status quo of our society. I ask Robert to explore the early days of psychedelic interest in American society, initially generated in large part by the release of the 1956 Life Magazine photo essay by R. Gordon Wasson (J.P. Morgan Vice President of Public Relations) — a landmark piece that was the first to expose the American public to the use and effects of psilocybin mushrooms. (http://bit.ly/2Hjr2y9) As Robert explains, the C.I.A. funded this venture (http://bit.ly/2VXcr4J), and was largely behind, along with media mogul Henry Luce, the branding of the psychedelic experience for Western audiences. Why would this be the case? As we descend down this rabbit hole of inquiry, we discuss the absolutely perplexing history of the popularization (and demonization) of psychedelic use in the modern era, including the overwhelming interest by Western elites to use these substances for mind control and social engineering purposes, as demonstrated in the MK-ULTRA project by the C.I.A., among other examples. Toward the end of our discussion, Robert and I get into some rather hairy topics relating to “conspiracy theory” in the “post-truth era,” as defined by  the blurring of lines between what is verifiably true and what is difficult to make sense of. While Robert and I may not come to agreement on these difficult subjects, we both absolutely recognize the necessity of questioning officially sanctioned narratives of events as propagated by the corporate-and-state managed press. Robert Forte is a scholar and researcher of psychedelic drugs. He first studied with Frank Barron, who started the Psilocybin Project at Harvard with Timothy Leary in 1963. Robert is the former director of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, and currently is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). James Fadiman, psychedelic researcher and writer, has described Robert as “a major but not well-known hero of the psychedelic movement.”Episode Notes:- Follow Robert on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2VvlNoW- Read the article ‘Can LSD and magic mushrooms help win wars? This Marine officer says ‘yes’’: http://bit.ly/2JfKIq1- Read the 1956 Life Magazine photo essay by R. Gordon Wasson: http://bit.ly/2Hjr2y9- Watch the Alex Jones deposition: https://youtu.be/I7siWJ86g40- The song featured in this episode is “Hi-Potent” by Roni Size &amp; Reprazent from the album New Forms (20th Anniversary Edition).WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.comPATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewildernessDONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcastDROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[INTRO: 11:06] In this episode, I speak with psychedelic scholar, editor, publisher, and researcher Robert Forte. For over three decades, Robert has collaborated with some of the most influential and well-known figures within the psychedelic movement, including R. Gordon Wasson, Timothy Leary, Stanislav Grof, and Alexander Shulgin, to name a few. In this discussion with Robert, we reference a recent article published by Marine Corp Times, titled ‘Can LSD and magic mushrooms help win wars? This Marine officer says ‘yes’.’ As the article states, the “military should join the growing list of psychedelic beneficiaries […] to become “stronger, faster and smarter than our adversaries”” through the microdosing of psychedelic compounds, like LSD and psilocybin, in order to counter “the nearly-insurmountable task of analyzing a rapidly-growing tidal wave of analytical data that, with today’s advances in technology, will only continue to expose cognitive shortfalls.” (<a href="http://bit.ly/2JfKIq1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2JfKIq1</a>) As the use of psychedelics enters the public discourse again, and as we continue to see the normalization of their use by Silicon Valley corporate executives and others to “significantly heighten alertness, creativity, and problem solving,” we have to step back and examine the ways psychedelic use is actually reinforcing the status quo of our society. I ask Robert to explore the early days of psychedelic interest in American society, initially generated in large part by the release of the 1956 Life Magazine photo essay by R. Gordon Wasson (J.P. Morgan Vice President of Public Relations) — a landmark piece that was the first to expose the American public to the use and effects of psilocybin mushrooms. (<a href="http://bit.ly/2Hjr2y9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Hjr2y9</a>) As Robert explains, the C.I.A. funded this venture (<a href="http://bit.ly/2VXcr4J" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2VXcr4J</a>), and was largely behind, along with media mogul Henry Luce, the branding of the psychedelic experience for Western audiences. Why would this be the case? As we descend down this rabbit hole of inquiry, we discuss the absolutely perplexing history of the popularization (and demonization) of psychedelic use in the modern era, including the overwhelming interest by Western elites to use these substances for mind control and social engineering purposes, as demonstrated in the MK-ULTRA project by the C.I.A., among other examples. Toward the end of our discussion, Robert and I get into some rather hairy topics relating to “conspiracy theory” in the “post-truth era,” as defined by the blurring of lines between what is verifiably true and what is difficult to make sense of. While Robert and I may not come to agreement on these difficult subjects, we both absolutely recognize the necessity of questioning officially sanctioned narratives of events as propagated by the corporate-and-state managed press. Robert Forte is a scholar and researcher of psychedelic drugs. He first studied with Frank Barron, who started the Psilocybin Project at Harvard with Timothy Leary in 1963. Robert is the former director of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, and currently is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). James Fadiman, psychedelic researcher and writer, has described Robert as “a major but not well-known hero of the psychedelic movement.” Episode Notes: - Follow Robert on Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/2VvlNoW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2VvlNoW</a> - Read the article ‘Can LSD and magic mushrooms help win wars? This Marine officer says ‘yes’’: <a href="http://bit.ly/2JfKIq1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2JfKIq1</a> - Read the 1956 Life Magazine photo essay by R. Gordon Wasson: <a href="http://bit.ly/2Hjr2y9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2Hjr2y9</a> - Watch the Alex Jones deposition: <a href="https://youtu.be/I7siWJ86g40" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/I7siWJ86g40</a> - The song featured in this episode is “Hi-Potent” by Roni Size &amp; Reprazent from the album New Forms (20th Anniversary Edition). WEBSITE: <a href="https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com</a> PATREON: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness</a> DONATE: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast</a> DROP ME A LINE: (208) 918-2837 EVERYTHING ELSE: <a href="https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior</a>

#195 | Mind Control: Psychedelics, Conspiracy, & Truth In The Post-Truth Era w/ Robert Forte

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