[Another forgotten post from the draft folder from Sep 2010]
This was an insight that Howard Bloom’s Conformity Enforcers and Stephen Pressfield’s concept of The Resistance are linked, or at least serve the same ends.
Post Category → Contemporary Culture
Listening is an act of compassion
Studs Terkel, the oral historian on This American Life and Public Radio Redux, was a lovely person.
I really like this On Being piece, “Life, Faith and Death“.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel
Two books on getting the benefits of religion without believing
Religion for Atheists by Alain De Botton
Waking Up by Sam Harris