Midlifing
Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
Midlifing
179: Ossified and greedy
Lee and Simon talk about the books that changed them and what it would take to join a revolution.
Some other details from the episode: Non-dual awareness, Lee reading during his Masters, Portugal's The Carnation Revolution (military coup), Eurovision song contest, Chega political party (Portugal), igniting a revolution to over-throw a Government, uprisings in the UK, what would it take for Lee to join a revolution, wealth and shifting the goalposts, putting our phones down, Civil War (the film), Annie B. Parson (The Choreography of Everyday Life) and a triangle between the reader, the writer and the world.
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