Irony and Compassion

Hello, welcome, allies, to the Visionary Activist Show, and I'm your weaver of context, Caroline Casey.

So, the winds of democracy are still blowing through the world, through the earth and from the earth, so we need to put up another sail.

in Maine and in everywhere.

So cultivating the craft of complex storytelling, irony and compassion.

I always love to refer to the fact that the Brits said, we have discovered that to the degree to which people are ironic is the degree to which they can be compassionate.

And I love it because it's surprising.

We go, what? We think of irony as maybe a British bitter put down.

But to be ironic requires holding at least two stories at once.

what is and what should be that's all of our task and what is and what people are pretending it is also our task so irony requires two stories at least compassion is cultivating the capacity to hold more and more stories at once that's what we're up to with the mythic news corruption and beauty Myriad voices animating the guiding astro-mytho-political narrative, initiating honoring the wizard Mars within us all and the danger when we don't.

FIFA, Khomeini's funeral, Graham Plattner, Dr. Sophia, and many more things that we'll be brewing together.

But let's start with our guest voices.

Norway talks grown up to Johnny.