Meaning, Ritual, and Ambiguity with Sarah Perry
b'Sarah Perry (@sarahdoingthing), writer and thinker, joins Erik on this episode.
They discuss:
- Sarah\\u2019s writing career and what it means to \\u201cwork through your politics\\u201d early in your career as a writer.
- The purpose of rituals and why democracy is itself a form of ritual.
- Why ambiguity increases meaning.
- What we as a culture don\\u2019t understand about meaning.
- The narrative illusion in life, that there\\u2019s \\u201cnothing but time\\u201d and that that is the place from which meaning comes.
- How to have non-zero-sum status in a society.
- What it means to make the \\u201chonest decision.\\u201d
- Why humor is so powerful.
- Why people (mistakenly) romanticize the past.
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