Show Description/Notes
Sometimes you just wanna hear from someone else. In this bonus episode, Alex Leff enters Crazy Town to introduce his podcast, Human Nature Odyssey. Before playing the first episode of the podcast, Jason, Rob, and Asher find lots of laughs with Alex as they contemplate environmental destruction, gorilla suits, the fate of civilization, tandem bike rides, imaginary games, and how to make a podcast. If you need a little more encouragement to check out Human Nature Odyssey, our friend Tom Murphy (author of the Do the Math blog) gives it his highest recommendation.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- Human Nature Odyssey on Apple Podcasts
- The work and philosophy of Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael
- Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
- Alex Leff’s Patreon page for Human Nature Odyssey
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Ooo… also, look at the Arctic this week – this only shows regions of 90+% ice. Everything else is, basically, chunky slush. Eskimos now use boats. I wonder what Peter Wadhams would have to say about this?
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Also, this is likely the cause of the way seasons seem to be breaking? It does look kinda too late to save, from any practical standpoint. Hold on to your seats!
This likely scares the crap outta you (like it does me). My reaction has been to build community as fast as I can. That is, my network of "ally" peeps.
This is both deeply promising and brilliantly produced. The story line and synesthetic audio are amazing. A little bit detracting. I aam more than a little anxious that the verbal content won’t be on par with the powerful perceptual packaging. Rather than just a message, however deep and coherent it may be, I ask is it exactly the message that we need right now? On account of this being a serious crisis. If so, how do you know?
"…I'm watching a CrazyTown be born right before my eyes!…"
Thank you for the podcast recommendation!
True humans who thought like us probably only happened about 70,000 years ago, but that's still 65,000 years before the Ag revolution. Evidently before Ag there was the population of the continents and wiping out most megafauna (except in Africa). So we did a lot. Just not civilization.