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What Keeps Us Human to One Another?
by Prof. RJ Starr
There are moments in ordinary life that stay with us. A kindness from a stranger. An unexpected connection. Something someone said or did that reminds us what it means to share this world.Welcome to What Keeps Us Human to One Another?, a series of personal essays and reflections written and read by RJ Starr, whose work in psychology and philosophy explores the human experience and the ways we relate to one another.Read the full series at profrjstarr.com/what-keeps-us-human-to-one-another
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When a Person Becomes a Type
A video begins in the middle of an argument at a counter. A woman is frustrated, an employee answers back, and the camera has arrived too late to show how any of it started. Within a few comments, she has been named: entitled, a Karen, one of those people. In this piece from What Keeps Us Human…
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When Disagreement Does Not Become Conflict
A viewer left a comment under one of RJ Starr’s lectures disagreeing with part of what he had said. The comment went straight at the idea. He answered, the viewer answered back, and the exchange stayed with the subject until it ended. Neither person had to be cast as foolish, dishonest, or...
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When a Story Ends and It Feels Like Goodbye
When Professor RJ Starr finished the last episode of Everwood, a television drama set in a small Colorado town, he expected some sadness. What he did not expect was the restlessness that followed. There were books nearby, a chessboard, a clock waiting to be reassembled, things to cook. The…
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When a Stranger Stops Being a Stranger
A man arrives by bicycle in a town where he knows no one. Someone who has never seen him before fills his water bottles, then sets a place at the table and hands him a towel. In this opening piece of What Keeps Us Human to One Another?, Psychology Professor RJ Starr begins with the travel videos…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
There are moments in ordinary life that stay with us. A kindness from a stranger. An unexpected connection. Something someone said or did that reminds us what it means to share this world.Welcome to What Keeps Us Human to One Another?, a series of personal essays and reflections written and read by RJ Starr, whose work in psychology and philosophy explores the human experience and the ways we relate to one another.Read the full series at profrjstarr.com/what-keeps-us-human-to-one-another
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Prof. RJ Starr
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