Civilized To Death, Why everything's amazing, but nobody's happy.

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A+++ interview:
The Jimmy Dore Show How We Are Being “Civilized To Death” w_Christopher Ryan, 58m51s, (2019-11-23)

https://ChrisRyanPHD.com/ https://infogalactic.com/info/Christopher_Ryan_(author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ryan_(author)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Civilized+To+Death

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[–]useless_aether 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

louis ck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Brilliant ! ! !

So true.

So funny.

[–]FormosaOolong 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Really cool interview. Well worth watching, thank you.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

We took the mystery out of the rest of the world by putting all of it in the palm of our hands.

I feel like it has really hurt the ability of people to "let go" and relax - because now "everything is doable" "you're an idiot if you don't take the opportunity" - but you burn yourself out and waste a lot of time and money that way.

Always in motion, rather than standing still/at one with the surroundings and all that.

Maybe the author agrees but I haven't read the book.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

We took the mystery out of the rest of the world by putting all of it in the palm of our hands.

No, I will not make a dirty joke.

I would say the author agrees, just by this interview.

I'm curious to know if the book delves into wu wei, wabi sabi, and other Zen Buddhist and Existentialist concepts.

[–]blowininthewind 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

nice ddg link!

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks I think. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Regardless, I often try to include a DDG link rather than Google, and/or I often do it because there's just too much good stuff there that I'm too lazy to copypasta into a post for all the lazy readers.

[–]blowininthewind 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

i'm not.