Podcast Benomtad

In a clip from the Happiness and Natural Goodness episode, my friend LL and I talk about a trend she’s seen on social media to cut off family.  There are acronyms for this and people seem to do it for rather insignificant reasons.  Isn’t difficulty part of having familial and really any relations?
Please share your thoughts, and for the full episode, click here:https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/rousseau-happiness-the-difficulty-of-being-content-in-the-modern-world/

My friend LL and I read and discuss a part of Plato’s Symposium on human desire for immortality.  I find Plato’s passage incredibly beautiful. We talk about our own fears of death.

In a clip from the Happiness and Natural Goodness episode, my friend LL and I talk about our ideas about the feminine and how we don’t see those in media much today. I give a mention to the ‘90s Men’s Movement poet Robert Bly.  Are the feminine and masculine complementary? Can they serve the family?
Please share your thoughts, and for the full episode, click here:https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/rousseau-happiness-the-difficulty-of-being-content-in-the-modern-world/

In a clip from the Happiness and Natural Goodness episode, my friend LL talks about her ideas about the ideal man.  This is a variation on the ideal human, but more from an outside perspective, protecting from the outside, including negative – including moral – influences on the child.  
Is there an or more than one ideal of a man you have? Is it essentially a family person or an individual? Please share your thoughts, and for the full episode, click here:https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/rousseau-happiness-the-difficulty-of-being-content-in-the-modern-world/

In this clip from the Rousseau episode of Happiness and Natural Goodness, I ask my friend LL the above questions.  We talk a bit about integrity and other virtues and end on expanding the definition of a good person into the realm of society.  What do you think the role of the family is in promoting citizenship?
Please share your thoughts, and for the full episode, click here:https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/rousseau-happiness-the-difficulty-of-being-content-in-the-modern-world/

In this clip from the Rousseau episode of Happiness and Natural Goodness, we ask some basic, and perhaps neglected, questions: What is a Good Soul? What is a good life? Do we have ideals, and if so, what are they?  It sometimes seem like we have more ideas, and even more so – reaction programming – of what is a bad soul, person, or life.
Please share your thoughts, and for the full episode, click here:https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/rousseau-happiness-the-difficulty-of-being-content-in-the-modern-world/

To talk about the self in the modern world, alienation, we draw on Rousseau, who contrasts the contented savage and the image-obsessed man of the world.  The latter does not live his life in himself: “What he is is nothing.  What he appears to be is everything for him.” 
 
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Rousseau’s idea on happiness and the contrast of the savage with the “masked” man of the world; modern ideas and our own on the good person, man, and woman; the family in society; John Vervaeke’s talk of having vs. being needs, and how we try to have things to take care of being needs.  

And yet, stories have the power to transform our perceptions… tools for our minds not above things and people.
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In the episode about how important stories are to our species, here we talk about the danger of being too attached to our own stories.
 
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