Air Date: 5-19-25

Today, Jay!, Amanda, and Deon (Erin was on vacation) discuss:

• The origins of and problems with "the one way" Christian mindset
• Why Finland's happiest country title and happiness itself are terribly misunderstood by Americans
• How our globalized world is messing with perceptions of our cultural similarities and differences
• The link between genocides, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories
• Naomi Klein's analysis on the problems with how we talk about the Holocaust
• How we get back to humanization and recognizing our core similarities as beings floating on a rock in space
• Some Finnish wisdom that encapsulates life, the universe, and everything

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REFERENCES:

My Miserable Week in the Happiest Country on Earth - The New York Times

Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!)

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!)

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!)

"Pale Blue Dot" - An excerpt from Carl Sagan's book "Pale Blue Dot" (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!)

SOLVED! SONG! "Pale Blue Dot" - Concepts: Human Intelligence. Song: Artificial Intelligence.

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