Heterodox Americana

Once you're free in and from your own mind, freedom follows everywhere else. But how do we get free. Here we look at the path to spiritual freedom and liberation from dukkha.

On this episode, we partially revisit identity in the context of class. Communist and psychotherapist, Brian gives his take on what we didn't consider on the topic of human emancipation and flourishing.

This time we tackle the White identity politics. Not the White nationalist, right-wing extremist variety; rather the more mainstream and insidious variety.
To do so, we deconstruct identity, examine (in brief) the history of Whiteness, and talk about the implications for the future of our society.

Make America Great Again? Well, that's loaded! We're going to try to unpack it and all that's going on around it. Before we get to MAGA, though, there are a few foundational concepts that we need to layout and explore. The first is identity politics. Hang on to your hats.

Here we cover the PERMA model for human thriving or flourishing. Since one of the goals of the show is to examine our ideas and understand how they impact our ability to thrive, it's probably helpful to know what we mean by, "thrive".
PERMA is about

• Positive emotions
• Engagement
• Relationships (positive)
• Meaning
• Achievement

More on the show notes at heterodoxamericana.com

Here, we look at Moral Foundations Theory and advocate for its effectiveness as a useful framework to contextualize people's political and moral behavior. The real power of the theory, is that it helps to drown out some of the noise of mutual disagreement and gives us the tools to focus on what we have in common. It's through focusing on our commonalities that we can move the crucial of conversations forward. This framework forms the backbone of how we analyze the differences between political camps.

Is this country spinning out of control? Is there anything we can do to repair the rift?
In the first two episodes we talk about the respective journeys of the two hosts and the overall intention to facilitate more conversations between increasingly separated and isolated political and identity groups.
Episode 2 talks about Angie's journey.

Is this country spinning out of control? Is there anything we can do to repair the rift? 
In the first two episodes we talk about the respective journeys of the two hosts and the overall intention to facilitate more conversations between increasingly separated and isolated political and identity groups.
Episode 1 talks about Raphael's road to heterodoxy.