episode TWENTY-SIX: How About an Empathy Renaissance?

GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHLINGS!

DOES THE FUTURE SEEM DARK AND DISMAL?

DOES HUMANITY’S INHUMANITY SCARE YOU?

HOW ABOUT AN EMPATHY RENAISSANCE?

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In this interstellar phone call, A REAL HUMAN BEING and AN ALIEN find some room to breathe and talk real shit — all while trying to heal their people with love.

Call log:

• What do aliens REALLY think of humanity?
• SOCIAL ALIENATION — the challenges of growing up as a misfit/outcast/black sheep
• THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS — humans need planet Earth to survive, but would she be better off without us?
• How art and literature deepen our capacity for EMPATHY and WISDOM
• Finding BEAUTY in sadness & grief: how hearts must be broken in order to grow and become whole again

Credits for musical interludes/segments in this episode:

• Blue Dot Sessions
• Harry Edvino
• Monsoon & Ejazz
• Drift Far Away

• SergeQuadrado
• Rand Aldo

⁠Love is the Dankest of All Memes⁠

⁠Terra Incognita (a Neon-Noir Sci-Fi Anthology)⁠