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AfterThought
by CDK
Think strategically to help put our locked-down world of today into perspective: COVID-19, global climate change, and other crises, prevent clarity and increase anxiety. Against these we apply psychology and history to gain insight into our current moment. Join Chris, Dawson and Karambir, as they converse on these issues.
Episodes
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16. Conclusion Part 2: Beyond Hope for the Future: Compassion and Resolve
We begin with where the podcast started: one of the characteristics of the contemporary world, which is both an active contributor to, as well as a passive reflection of, its being in crisis, is that in contrast to the modern worldview’s ideal of some magisterial overview, our current moment...
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15. Conclusion Part 1: Strategies for Thinking the Present
In this episode, (part one of our two-part conclusion), we aim to tie together – like a nice bow on a Christmas present, know what we mean? – a number of themes (“thoughtlines”) raised throughout the series that present a diverse number of strategies for thinking the present. We engage the notion...
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14. The Ego and its Discontents
The identification of the ego with power structures greater than itself, raises a whole host of questions around ego identity as healthy vs unhealthy; around tribal identity and tribalism and its transformation with the emergence of civilization. What role does mythology play relative to this...
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13. Power in History
Power manifests in a regularly recurring historical pattern: when there is a successful critique of the dominant power and its institutions and accompanying mythology, the critique in turn becomes institutionalized as the new center of power and new mythologizing and in that process falls into a...
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12. Opposing Scale: Spiritual Practices and Small Communities
In this episode, our deep dive into the Axial Age meets the podcast theme of the importance of scale. The themes of thinking at different time scales, our effort of following a "thoughtline" through changing historical scales, is provided its psychological underpinning: scaling up is an...
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11. Are we in a Second Axial Age?
We continue our discussion of the Axial Age begun in the previous episode, in terms of how our current time is (and is not!) a type of second Axial Age. Some key aspects of the Axial Age - as a highly self-conscious response to perceived crisis, as critique of existing power, as presenting an...
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10. The Axial Age: 2500 Years Ago
This episode introduces our listeners to "the Axial Age", the time period of the middle first millennium BC. The adjective "Axial" is derived from the notion of an "axis" as a dividing line, but within history. Karl Jaspers coins the phrase, although the notion of a "dividing line within history"...
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9. Globalization: One Globe, Many Worlds
Globalization means that economically, industrially, technologically, all humans have become interconnected. In this episode we argue the other side to the globalization story is a great diversity that we summarize as living in different cultural, religious, spiritual, metaphysical, realities…
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8. Myth and Worldview
If key to the modern Western worldview was the discovery of deep space, deep time, deep process, and deep consciousness, and a corresponding conception of no limits, what follows after that worldview’s demise in 1945 with WWII undoing European power? Does a new worldview and mythology emerge?…
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7. After Modernity, what? Postmodernity, Ultramodernity, Multiple Modernities
We discuss different ways to understand the “end” of the modern Western worldview: does it end? Does it entrench and solidify itself? Is it overcome, or an alternative present itself? How does it transform? In a sense, all of the above happens, and this incoherent plurality and its globalization...
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6. The Scientific Revolution and the Modern West
The scientific, as well as political, and industrial revolutions that are key to the development of the “modern West” and its worldview from 1500 to WWII are examined. The shattering of the medieval Western worldview through discovering deep space, deep time, deep process, and finally deep...
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5. Mobilization
This episode examines the modern worldview in terms of its understanding of unlimited growth, and how this set the context for World War II and the Great Acceleration. Throughout there is a focus on the theme of mobilization: different ways to understand mobilization, and how to apply the…
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4. State of Emergency: World War II as Precedent for Today
In this episode we look at what we’re calling “expansionism”, how the natural tendency of a species to expand into its niche, is unnaturally extended beyond those natural limits by humans. Pursuing this thoughtline brings us to a discussion of World War II as a historical precedent for our world…
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3. Thinking at Different Scales: The Great Acceleration
In this episode we will explore the notion of thinking at different timescales. We will look at four different time scales: the Great Acceleration (1950-2020), Holocene (last 10,000 years), Anthropocene (current epoch), and the emergence of Homo Sapiens (200,000 years). Some references: On the...
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2. Thinking the Present Moment Part 2: Coronavirus and the Impossible
In this episode we take a closer look at the COVID-19 global pandemic and corresponding lockdown, discussing what possibilities for reflection and potential transformation the experience of lockdown affords. New episodes coming out every Thursday! We'd love to hear from you! Feel free to get in...
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1. Thinking the Present Moment: The World as a Convergence of Crises
In this first episode of the Afterthought series we introduce some of the global crises that our world is faced with, and start to explore what it means to think strategically about coronavirus, climate change, and the end of the world. New episodes coming out every Thursday! For anyone…
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Meet your hosts for Afterthought podcast! Dawson Strand, Chris Peet, and Karambir Singh.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Think strategically to help put our locked-down world of today into perspective: COVID-19, global climate change, and other crises, prevent clarity and increase anxiety. Against these we apply psychology and history to gain insight into our current moment. Join Chris, Dawson and Karambir, as they converse on these issues.
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Think strategically to help put our locked-down world of today into perspective: COVID-19, global climate change, and other crises, prevent clarity and increase anxiety. Against these we apply psychology and history to gain insight into our current moment. Join Chris, Dawson and Karambir, as they...
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