Riveting and compelling podcast indeed... the most thoughtful, spellbinding and inspired words I've yet heard on this subject. His commentary on our lack of ritual initiation into adulthood - especially for men - and the profound absence of true fathering in the world speaks to how our headlong rush into AI is adolescent posturing with apparently no mature mentor - a mage - in the house. The sorcerer's apprentice an apt metaphor... thanks for sharing this...
I'm so glad someone else listened and enjoyed it as much as I did. Spellbinding is the best word to describe it. The stuff about fathers and fathering was really interesting to me!
I know so many young people who have not received good fathering - and in every case, those fathers didn't receive good fathering themselves - absent fathers, alcoholism, violence and so on. I think it's just one of the critical issues facing our society. There's the massive factor of the world wars to take into account. Have you read Finuola Dowling's fantastic memoir The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers. Very moving. Exquisitely written.
I think the world is divided not into people who are punctual and people who are late, but people who go into meltdown if they're not ten minutes early, and all the rest. This trait of mine is one that has caused conflict in my life.
Riveting and compelling podcast indeed... the most thoughtful, spellbinding and inspired words I've yet heard on this subject. His commentary on our lack of ritual initiation into adulthood - especially for men - and the profound absence of true fathering in the world speaks to how our headlong rush into AI is adolescent posturing with apparently no mature mentor - a mage - in the house. The sorcerer's apprentice an apt metaphor... thanks for sharing this...
I'm so glad someone else listened and enjoyed it as much as I did. Spellbinding is the best word to describe it. The stuff about fathers and fathering was really interesting to me!
I know so many young people who have not received good fathering - and in every case, those fathers didn't receive good fathering themselves - absent fathers, alcoholism, violence and so on. I think it's just one of the critical issues facing our society. There's the massive factor of the world wars to take into account. Have you read Finuola Dowling's fantastic memoir The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers. Very moving. Exquisitely written.
... and I spluttered my coffee at the scanning the barcode under a sanitiser dispenser episode. Classic frazzle 😂
I only laughed the first time today. It's very funny. So embarrassing.
Wow. It looks like an incredible experience. But mostly I was swept along by your panic about being late, and (a bit) lost. My absolute worst 🫣
I think the world is divided not into people who are punctual and people who are late, but people who go into meltdown if they're not ten minutes early, and all the rest. This trait of mine is one that has caused conflict in my life.
What a spectacular present! I would love to do this... where is it?
It's here in Berlin, in the Eastern part of the city. You get off at train station called Friedrichstraße.