Solution Space

In this Episode, Adam discusses some academic sources on "Critical War Studies" to talk about how we can think more expansively about violence, conflict, and war. We can understand that creation is violent, and that violence sets the stage for the cultures which follow. Wading into these waters is important for us to understand what peacemaking--or, avoiding the logic of total war--really entails.

On this show, Adam discusses eroticism as a pivotal theme to bring into conversations surrounding social development. Beyond the stigma associated with discussions regarding sex, a sophisticated and gregarious eroticism pierces cultural norms and provides space for us all to flourish and mutually interact generatively with the world.

On this track I introduce a staple term in my current lexicon, namely "eldritch goodness." I didn't get to this in the episode, but eldritch basically means non-linear, what frustrates linear expectations. Eldritch goodness is a way of saying weird can be helpful, and goodness can be exciting and surprisingly enjoyable.

On this episode I talk about the transformative impact of friendship on my life, and how I think it is the basis for a decent outcome to our current troubles. I also begin to explain my views on how religion, nationalism, faith in science, and individualism have arisen to provide stopgap and makeshift forms of human trust, but how they are all falling behind the pace of change and events. All that can help us is a transconceptual and largehearted gregariousness. At a certain point this asks of us to trust others without proofs, and I'm here to help facilitate that by offering these shows as encouragement to the listener. Follow up on www.thesolutionspaceproject.org

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Adam returns with a new heart, inspired by the warmth of friendship, encouragement, and service. It is time for us to take heart, and make sure those in our lives are feeling well and encouraged. Find the people in your life who have the biggest hearts and make sure that they are at peace. This show is meant as a first installment of encouragement to you to help us see that we don't have to do XYZ to feel important. We already are. There is no happiness like being nice just because. How do you know you can trust? You just can. Certainty beyond proposition: feel it in your heart. You are enough. You are a gift to everyone around you. Make good on it.

In this show, Adam discusses the recent summit between the leaders of the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. This conflict represents one of the deadlocks which spell the end of the logic of Accumulation which has driven civilization since the beginning. To maintain any life at all, much less decent life, we must transition to a logic (if it can be so called)of Reformulation. Adam discusses aspects of this transition he can see in his own life, and begins to discuss the opportunities opened up by this change in perspective.

Adam and Eva discuss COP26 and why it is not a serious attempt to address the destabilizing effect of industry on the biosphere. We get into the thorny issues of consumerism, political manipulation, and justified lack of trust which make meaningfully address biospheric disruption so difficult as to seem impossible.

This episode really gets into some key ideas, and will be the jumping off point for future episodes. Make sure and tune in!