In this episode of Questions of Courage, Nathaniel discusses the effects of digital technology on young people today, and particularly how the youth's experience contrasts and compares with generations of the recent past. This discussion touches on digital avatars, behavioral psychology, and a picture-based consciousness that began in the 1960’s, which has become prevalent and foundational to our experience of the world today.

References:
Matt Richtel series on adolescent mental health in the New York Times on
Sherry Turkle - “Alone Together”
Patricia Lockwood - “No One Is Talking About This”
Tristan Harris
Shoshana Zuboff,  “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”
Jane Goodall

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In this episode Nathaniel discusses anthropological efforts of the 1960’s and 1970’s often were reductivist and condescending towards the groups of people who were being described. Through the context of Marshall Sahlins’ book “The New Science of the Enchanted Universe,” Nathaniel points us towards the spiritual experiences of the world that non-European cultures had, which were being spoken of in a Eurocentric way that diminished their power. We begin to see the ways that what was coming to awareness in the 50’s-70’s was not accepted as legitimate, and how this legacy of “colonization of what can be spoken of as legitimate” remains embedded in our culture even today.

Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV. To support the Youth Section Action Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations.

References: 

Jacob Needleman - “The New Religions”

Citizens United

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Marshall Sahlins - “The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An anthropology of most of humanity”

Owen Barfield - Saving the Appearances, The Harp and the Camera, The Coming Trauma of Materialism

CS Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

Inklings

William Stafford - A Ritual to Read to One Another

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In this first Episode of Questions of Courage Nathaniel Williams maps the historical path of youth movements and revolutionary moments from the 1950’s to today, with a particular awareness to the quality of spiritual seeking that has underscored this series of events in both Europe and The United States. He lays out the intention behind Questions of Courage, this new Podcast and video project, which is a collaboration between the Youth Section of the School for Spiritual Science and the Wochenschrift and Goetheanum TV. Welcome!

References:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Emily Mayson

Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry

Resources around the 1870’s Reconstruction Period in the US:

The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition - By Theodore Roszak

The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective - By Charles Epp

“The Harp and the Camera the harp” in The Rediscovery of Meaning - By Owen Barfield

Becoming the Archangel Michael's Companions - By Rudolf Steiner

After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s - By Robert Wuthnow

Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV.
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