New Worlds, Feeling Good, and The Biology of Free Speech. - a podcast by Ant Biggs

New Worlds, Feeling Good and The Biology of Free Speech. Episode 12 of COW - The Podcast. How conversation, free speech and a close examination of our personal beliefs and behaviours may form the best anti-depressants yet. Against a crisis background of rising prescriptions for anti-depressant drugs, Ant Biggs uses personal experience to draw links between our beliefs and behaviours, our narrative landscape and our basic biological, billion year old selves and to draw the conclusion that personal fulfillment can be found through a philosophical examination of the dissonance that exists between us as individuals and us, as members of society. The benefits of having to address our uncomfortable gotos are explained and parallels drawn with the need to allow free speech rather than to hide our less admirable selves away. The dissonance once acknowledged allows us to enter into conversation that might allow us to begin to shape society in ways in which it might begin to work, as it should, for us, rather than as it does, against us. Out of the darkness, hope.

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