I think I'm going to make a flyer of your podcast and put it up in our coffee shops and Co-op. If you already have one with a QR, that would save some time.
I, for one, value your podcast and all the guests.
As a mom and grandmother I think it's important to me to pass these discussions to my receptive kids. I don't force things. I let them grow, like seeds. A podcast flyer would be like a seed or a graft of a grape vine of information fruit.
Blessings to you Nate. Maybe I'll see you out hiking the Driftless area someday? If so, I'd like to shake your hand.
I stumbled across TGS two years ago in one of my late-night quests for systems-level sense-making, something I began doing after my child was born over a decade ago. When you care that much for another living being (both human and non-human) and you confront the limits of mainstream myths that are based on blind human exceptionalism and techno-optimism, you feel a level of terror that seems unmanageable. I'm not religious. I've come to realize that these podcasts are MY "church." They ground me and give me hope. Discovering initially that there was at least one other person (Nate), and then hearing more and more people from across the globe (Nate's guests), that not only have their eyes open to the complexity of the metacrisis, but also model courageousness in the determination to grow at the personal level, fortifies me. I am not alone. Striving for truth, justice, and health (not just for myself and my loved ones, but for all life) is not a futile endeavor. The discomfort and unease that I feel as I face so many unknowns is a shared, global experience, playing out in real time. Communing here, with people I don't know and that don't know me, through the simple act of listening changes me. Accompanying that is a renewed and evolving hope that the learning and integrating, which those changes induce within me, will radiate outward and impact the world for the better, beginning with my tiny inner circle and the small acts I am able to do here and now. And then I hope that the invisible tendrils of change growing from and linking the TGS listeners together are working their way outward, expanding, connecting across the globe, making some nurturing, healing "magic" (for lack of a better word) happen at larger and larger scales. Whether or not TGS is ultimately "successful" in its goal of facilitating a bend (rather than break) scenario, many lives are being improved, both directly and indirectly, because of its efforts. And that's a good thing. And all good things are valuable and worthy of celebration in this ever-changing, emergent world.
Agree 100% - Info/doom scrolling over load is a real thing for so many of us! Hard to stop but when I do - I feel so much better. Like to be informed but carrying the world on your shoulders and the all negative news cycles is too much and bad for our over all health. Thanks for reminding me to cut back and take more regular breaks from all the bad news. Sad because I still belive most people are good most of the time and the news just relagates it to the last minute of a broadcast. KInd of pathetic.
I also look for the people who want to grapple with changing the arc of the downward slope, where my prescription is first to change humanity. War should be unthinkable. Even get an ad agency selling us on feeling how great we can be. Given the state of collapse we're in, there's no telling how well a changed humanity would do, but changed people would give us our best shot.
My Substack this week does some summarizing of my thoughts about getting on a better course:
Are you connected with Planet Critical to combine your efforts? She has the values you are describing in your Frankly.
I have only recently come to think there is a possibility that humanity might come out the other side of collapse when we rebuild with a pro-social pro ecology pro biosphere culture. But it will take really understanding how we got here.
Understanding the underlying ideology is vital. We live thinking that we deserve to extract anything and everything from the natural world. That is a recipe for disaster. I believe by challenging deservedness ideology we can finally imagine other ways to organize society.
For me this is only in the last few months that i have come to this understanding.
Nate, can I offer a way of looking at the metacrisis/polycrisis that might give a glimmer of imagination of what can replace the economy of greed and commoditifying everything with other possibilities by identifying the underlying ideology that supports or cilture? What a question.
Nate, I just listened to Krista Tippitt latest podcast with David Bornstein, very cogent to your latest Frankly. Thought you’d be interested. As to my feelings about your Frankly, I absolutely loved your segment featuring the folks who won your prize. They were all so inspiring. More of that would be grand. Thanks for all you do,
Yes, quite possibly we are at Peak Sensemaking, at least for the people now living. Let's hope future humanity (it's possible) will begin again in creative ways. But your new meme describes the sense of chaos many feel. (But ignorance is bliss for many too!)
I think I'm going to make a flyer of your podcast and put it up in our coffee shops and Co-op. If you already have one with a QR, that would save some time.
I, for one, value your podcast and all the guests.
As a mom and grandmother I think it's important to me to pass these discussions to my receptive kids. I don't force things. I let them grow, like seeds. A podcast flyer would be like a seed or a graft of a grape vine of information fruit.
Blessings to you Nate. Maybe I'll see you out hiking the Driftless area someday? If so, I'd like to shake your hand.
What a fabulous idea! I hope it happens. I will join you in posting them in my community.
I've learned so much from your podcast and am thrilled you're shifting your focus to what we can do. Thank you.
I stumbled across TGS two years ago in one of my late-night quests for systems-level sense-making, something I began doing after my child was born over a decade ago. When you care that much for another living being (both human and non-human) and you confront the limits of mainstream myths that are based on blind human exceptionalism and techno-optimism, you feel a level of terror that seems unmanageable. I'm not religious. I've come to realize that these podcasts are MY "church." They ground me and give me hope. Discovering initially that there was at least one other person (Nate), and then hearing more and more people from across the globe (Nate's guests), that not only have their eyes open to the complexity of the metacrisis, but also model courageousness in the determination to grow at the personal level, fortifies me. I am not alone. Striving for truth, justice, and health (not just for myself and my loved ones, but for all life) is not a futile endeavor. The discomfort and unease that I feel as I face so many unknowns is a shared, global experience, playing out in real time. Communing here, with people I don't know and that don't know me, through the simple act of listening changes me. Accompanying that is a renewed and evolving hope that the learning and integrating, which those changes induce within me, will radiate outward and impact the world for the better, beginning with my tiny inner circle and the small acts I am able to do here and now. And then I hope that the invisible tendrils of change growing from and linking the TGS listeners together are working their way outward, expanding, connecting across the globe, making some nurturing, healing "magic" (for lack of a better word) happen at larger and larger scales. Whether or not TGS is ultimately "successful" in its goal of facilitating a bend (rather than break) scenario, many lives are being improved, both directly and indirectly, because of its efforts. And that's a good thing. And all good things are valuable and worthy of celebration in this ever-changing, emergent world.
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Agree 100% - Info/doom scrolling over load is a real thing for so many of us! Hard to stop but when I do - I feel so much better. Like to be informed but carrying the world on your shoulders and the all negative news cycles is too much and bad for our over all health. Thanks for reminding me to cut back and take more regular breaks from all the bad news. Sad because I still belive most people are good most of the time and the news just relagates it to the last minute of a broadcast. KInd of pathetic.
The way I see it: people are lonely and scared & the media robs them of hope. It’s our job to give them hope. Not naive hope, but hope nevertheless.
Right on. A word of hope ☺️ https://open.substack.com/pub/contentcarrier/p/word-of-hope?r=9mdv4&utm_medium=ios
I'm very glad to hear you are shifting focus. It's just what I feel might be helpful for me and my small group to do more in our community.
I also look for the people who want to grapple with changing the arc of the downward slope, where my prescription is first to change humanity. War should be unthinkable. Even get an ad agency selling us on feeling how great we can be. Given the state of collapse we're in, there's no telling how well a changed humanity would do, but changed people would give us our best shot.
My Substack this week does some summarizing of my thoughts about getting on a better course:
An epidemic of courage
For doing what saves humanity
https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/an-epidemic-of-courage
Are you connected with Planet Critical to combine your efforts? She has the values you are describing in your Frankly.
I have only recently come to think there is a possibility that humanity might come out the other side of collapse when we rebuild with a pro-social pro ecology pro biosphere culture. But it will take really understanding how we got here.
Understanding the underlying ideology is vital. We live thinking that we deserve to extract anything and everything from the natural world. That is a recipe for disaster. I believe by challenging deservedness ideology we can finally imagine other ways to organize society.
For me this is only in the last few months that i have come to this understanding.
Nate, can I offer a way of looking at the metacrisis/polycrisis that might give a glimmer of imagination of what can replace the economy of greed and commoditifying everything with other possibilities by identifying the underlying ideology that supports or cilture? What a question.
https://egality.substack.com/p/unveiling-egality
Nate, I just listened to Krista Tippitt latest podcast with David Bornstein, very cogent to your latest Frankly. Thought you’d be interested. As to my feelings about your Frankly, I absolutely loved your segment featuring the folks who won your prize. They were all so inspiring. More of that would be grand. Thanks for all you do,
Liz McIlvaine, long time listener and big love…
Yes, quite possibly we are at Peak Sensemaking, at least for the people now living. Let's hope future humanity (it's possible) will begin again in creative ways. But your new meme describes the sense of chaos many feel. (But ignorance is bliss for many too!)
A pivot for the planet, people, and prosperity🖖