Let us step out of the mass psychosis of cancel culture and remember compassion, tolerance for differing viewpoints, and recognition of the deeply complex nature of human behavior.

TOPICS:

• Losing compassion in the name of compassion

• Cancel culture does nothing to create justice or healing

• It’s an ouroboros- the more a person participates in cancel culture, the more likely they are to be cancelled

• The goalposts of what is and is not okay are always moving

• I am not here to intellectually coddle my audience

• Collapsing both/and issues into either/or issues

• Shame is not a social justice tool

• Treating people like human beings, not political abstractions or online content

• Moral perfection is impossible

• People are not disposable

• Less punishment and more rehabilitation

• Dehumanization only leads to more injustice

• What cancellation would have meant for our ancestors and how that ancient imprint affects us today

• The trauma of cancellation shuts down the brain areas needed for healing and growth

• Quitting the cult of wokeness

• Choosing truth over popularity

• The parallels with the witch hunts

• This is not how we restructure humanity toward a more just, kind, equitable future

• Cancel culture leads to self censorship

• Your ancestors will not cancel you, the earth will not cancel you, the sun will not cancel you

RESOURCES:

• On Cancel Culture & the Medicine Stories Podcast

• Megan Jayne Crabbe’s post

• Clementine Morrigan’s post

• The Fucking Cancelled podcast

• I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came For Me

• Shame & Accountability by Brene Brown

• Chloe Valdary Theory of Enchantment

• Why I’m Leaving the Cult of Wokeness by Africa Brooke

• Africa’s Instagram

• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

• My website MythicMedicine.love 

• Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz

• Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram

• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)