![]() ![]() It’s vast numbers.Īnd the idea is, “Do this. It’s based on sort of factory models of creation. It just knows “person.” And you might as well be a robot, especially in our culture, which is very materialist. Just to tease this out a little bit more, why nature? Why culture bad, nature good?īecause culture doesn’t know you. And I finally came to think that the only way out of it is a complete detachment from culture, to return to our true nature.Īnd we figure it out by going to our true nature. The market will never run dry.īut yeah, it’s a real issue. It’s really kind of horrifying, but very remunerative for a life coach. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve had to mop up the dregs of their personalities after family holidays. There’s a lot of cultural cues and pressures there. All of that is cultural pressure.Īnd I guess the obvious one is the sort of going to the family at Christmastime. Yeah, and you’d see maybe her face would change if you went to a given topic so you’d steer away from it, or you’d think something was funny and she’d look at you glaringly and you would feel crestfallen and remember not to do that again. ![]() So, if I was having coffee with my best friend, there would be a kind of cultural force operating where I would… What? Try to behave like we’ve always behaved together, or. It’s all putting pressure on you to decide how to behave. It could be your religion, your ethnicity, your nation, the entire global culture. He said, “Whenever there are two people in the room, culture is the third guest at the table.” Because every time people interact, we’re always looking at each other for social cues and we’re always putting out social cues that we don’t even know about.Īnd so, it can be just you and your best friend. And in sociological configurations, it’s any type of social pressure could be considered “culture.” So, the great druggie wise guy, whose name I’m forgetting is… Tristan? So anyway, yes, I do have a PhD in sociology from Harvard, and. I’m very sorry if this is a bad thing to encourage drinking games during our podcast. What are you meaning exactly by “culture,” in this context?īy the way, as you listen to this podcast, now and in the future, every time I say the word “Harvard,” you may drink a shot. And the specific reason we do it is because of the pressure of culture. Yes, and that problem is: being pulled away from our true nature. Well, seriously, it’s because I have spent my whole entire life trying to help people with what I thought were a whole bunch of different problems that turned out to be one single problem. And I think it bears asking at this point, since we are obviously some madcap people: why we would want to be doing a podcast at all, Marty-moo? This is our first episode, our first-ever episode of all time. ![]() So, basically we’re screwed and that’s the end. I kept it in my lush, natural hair buns, it was easy. I think Marty might have figured it out a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. ![]() (You will also learn a Bewildered podcast companion game to keep you well-hydrated. We learn how to define happiness on our own terms and how to see ourselves as an eternally blue sky through which emotions can pass like the changes in weather. This episode unpacks the ways that culture wants us to come to consensus, while our true natures demand we come to our senses. To counter that harmful narrative, Martha offers a thought exercise to begin finding our way back to our true natures by creating spaciousness around our negative feelings. We’re told that if our lives LOOK right, we’d damn well better FEEL right. That existential disorientation we all feel might actually be a wake-up call or a course correction! As examples, they share their journeys from bewilderment to beWILDerment, explaining how pushing back on cultural conformity helped them both feel more grounded, authentic, and happy.Īfter spilling their figuring-it-out stories, our hosts tackle their first listener bewilderment: how to handle a sad day in what seems like an ideal life. In the very first episode of the Bewildered podcast, Martha and Rowan explore how bewilderment can become a path away from culture’s pressures and back to our true natures. ![]()
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