Podcasts by AfterThought

AfterThought

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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16. Conclusion Part 2: Beyond Hope for the Future: Compassion and Resolve from 2020-12-23T15:43:05

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...

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15. Conclusion Part 1: Strategies for Thinking the Present from 2020-12-22T16:48:05

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 throughou...

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14. The Ego and its Discontents from 2020-12-21T17:04:04

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 it...

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13. Power in History from 2020-12-18T22:26:10

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 becom...

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12. Opposing Scale: Spiritual Practices and Small Communities from 2020-12-17T15:27:18

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 "thoughtlin...

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11. Are we in a Second Axial Age? from 2020-12-10T17:53:11

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 ...

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10. The Axial Age: 2500 Years Ago from 2020-12-03T15:48:47

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 lin...

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9. Globalization: One Globe, Many Worlds from 2020-11-26T16:02:53

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 diversi...

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8. Myth and Worldview from 2020-11-19T17:21:54

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 worl...

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7. After Modernity, what? Postmodernity, Ultramodernity, Multiple Modernities from 2020-11-12T18:58:04

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 t...

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6. The Scientific Revolution and the Modern West from 2020-11-05T16:30:13

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 medi...

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5. Mobilization from 2020-10-29T18:50:27

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 focu...

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4. State of Emergency: World War II as Precedent for Today from 2020-10-22T21:23:17

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. Pursu...

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3. Thinking at Different Scales: The Great Acceleration from 2020-10-15T12:23:37

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), Anth...

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2. Thinking the Present Moment Part 2: Coronavirus and the Impossible from 2020-10-08T23:26:01

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 lock...

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1. Thinking the Present Moment: The World as a Convergence of Crises from 2020-10-01T03:12:15

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,...

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Trailer from 2020-09-19T17:05:47

Meet your hosts for Afterthought podcast! Dawson Strand, Chris Peet, and Karambir Singh. 

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