• episode TWENTY-SIX: How About an Empathy Renaissance?

  • Feb 20 2025
  • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
  • Podcast

episode TWENTY-SIX: How About an Empathy Renaissance?

  • Summary

  • GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHLINGS!

    DOES THE FUTURE SEEM DARK AND DISMAL?

    DOES HUMANITY’S INHUMANITY SCARE YOU?

    HOW ABOUT AN EMPATHY RENAISSANCE?

    🗿☯️👽

    In this interstellar phone call, A REAL HUMAN BEING and AN ALIEN find some room to breathe and talk real shit — all while trying to heal their people with love.

    Call log:

    • What do aliens REALLY think of humanity?
    • SOCIAL ALIENATION — the challenges of growing up as a misfit/outcast/black sheep
    • THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS — humans need planet Earth to survive, but would she be better off without us?
    • How art and literature deepen our capacity for EMPATHY and WISDOM
    • Finding BEAUTY in sadness & grief: how hearts must be broken in order to grow and become whole again


    Credits for musical interludes/segments in this episode:

    • Blue Dot Sessions
    • Harry Edvino
    • Monsoon & Ejazz
    • Drift Far Away
    • SergeQuadrado
    • Rand Aldo


    ⁠Love is the Dankest of All Memes⁠

    ⁠Terra Incognita (a Neon-Noir Sci-Fi Anthology)⁠


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