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Space Hex: The Curse of Restlessness in Worldviews of Perpetual Escape
FromThe Emerald
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Jun 23, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
"We don’t go to other planets because our planet is dying. Our planet dies, specifically because we perpetually want to go somewhere else." Today on the podcast, we look at humanity’s increasing obsession with transcending planet earth, in the context of the mythologies of human restlessness. How human beings, whether through certain religious visions of transcendence, or through the increasing transhuman and supernatural focus of modern science, are ultimately looking to be anywhere but right here, with ourselves, in nature. This misplaced spiritual drive, in which we perpetually seek wholeness out there, when wholeness ultimately lives right here, has been the subject of some of our most central stories about ourselves. Many in fact, have seen it as… a primordial curse.Support the show
Released:
Jun 23, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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