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~About this Episode~
On how seasons change our moods and states,
the role of the serious and the silly meeting in our daily lives, celebrations, and art,
and more.
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Some approximate time stamps for topics from this episode:
33:00
somehow finding positive experience in Christmas mall displays.
Having critiques of modernity but not living in them.
57:00
modern world infantilizes people yet also engenders a joylessness.
1:08:00
the separate times for the sacred and the silly
1:17:00
the lens dilation metaphor, life as both comedy and tragedy, the “yes” to life
1:23:00
Thoreau and the happy lumberjack, similarity between simpleton and sage but difference is the journey between, arc of experience makes the difference.
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