NonzeroClips | Rethinking Trauma | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jesse Singal [Culturally Determined] @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 7 minutes ago.
Jesse’s new article, “The Rise of PTSD” 3:39
How society viewed traumatized veterans of WWII vs. Vietnam 9:27
Effective treatments for PTSD 16:24
The danger of trauma becoming an identity 18:45
From 9/11 to coronavirus, we live in traumatic times 25:38
Speech policing and social climbing in the name of trauma 32:43
Jesse’s forthcoming book, The Quick Fix 39:42
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Jesse Singal (New York Magazine)
Recorded March 19, 2020
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Jesse’s new article, “The Rise of PTSD” 3:39
How society viewed traumatized veterans of WWII vs. Vietnam 9:27
Effective treatments for PTSD 16:24
The danger of trauma becoming an identity 18:45
From 9/11 to coronavirus, we live in traumatic times 25:38
Speech policing and social climbing in the name of trauma 32:43
Jesse’s forthcoming book, The Quick Fix 39:42
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Jesse Singal (New York Magazine)
Recorded March 19, 2020
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![Rethinking Trauma | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jesse Singal [Culturally Determined]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4dB1ucsctxA/hqdefault.jpg "Rethinking Trauma | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jesse Singal [Culturally Determined]
Jesse’s new article, “The Rise of PTSD” 3:39
How society viewed traumatized veterans of WWII vs. Vietnam 9:27
Effective treatments for PTSD 16:24
The danger of trauma becoming an identity 18:45
From 9/11 to coronavirus, we live in traumatic times 25:38
Speech policing and social climbing in the name of trauma 32:43
Jesse’s forthcoming book, The Quick Fix 39:42
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Jesse Singal (New York Magazine)
Recorded March 19, 2020
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![Dont Be Yourself | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Leah Finnegan [Culturally Determined]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5IVAaIyuIO0/hqdefault.jpg "Dont Be Yourself | Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Leah Finnegan [Culturally Determined]
1:19 How Leah realized that she should not “be herself”
9:05 The mental health benefits of getting a dog
11:12 Leah: We must bring back Kierkegaardian irony
17:58 Leah on the scourge of “urgent earnestness”
23:49 Is it ethical to not read the news?
26:27 Leah’s reflections on being “a year Twitter sober”
34:16 Lessons from the great “horseface” controversy of 2018
Aryeh Cohen-Wade (Joking on the Square, @AryehCW) and Leah Finnegan (The Outline, leahfinnegan.com)
Recorded April 25, 2019
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![Psychopolitics: Empathys Downsides | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5mkFSoFtwvM/hqdefault.jpg "Psychopolitics: Empathys Downsides | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom [The Wright Show]
A new study says empathy can increase political polarization 1:35
How empathy operates in today’s political environment 13:49
Is cognitive empathy a form of intelligence? 23:57
The Machiavellian uses of cognitive empathy 39:17
A counterproductive #Resistance view of Trump supporters 44:49
Paul doesn’t understand how anyone can still support Trump 50:24
Why “dehumanization” isn’t the real problem 56:04
Paul’s core message: “Don’t listen to your heart” 64:37
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (Yale University, Against Empathy, Just Babies)
Recorded November 18, 2019
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![Anxiety and Happiness | Robert Wright & Ruth Whippman [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6W1uLNu2X4g/hqdefault.jpg "Anxiety and Happiness | Robert Wright & Ruth Whippman [The Wright Show]
Ruth’s book, America the Anxious 0:31
Ruth is skeptical that meditation leads to happiness 6:33
Is being in the moment overrated? 16:21
Is there a mindful view of the coronavirus pandemic? 20:02
Radical self-help at the Landmark Forum 22:15
The CEO of Zappos created a happiness city in Las Vegas. It did not go well. 31:33
A plea for tolerance in the battle over attachment parenting 40:18
Why are Mormons so gosh darn happy? 48:09
Happiness in the UK vs. the US 56:24
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Ruth Whippman (ruthwhippman.com, America the Anxious)
Recorded March 25, 2020
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![Philosophy and Professional Wrestling | Robert Gressis & Douglas Edwards [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6pfYIMzyvg0/hqdefault.jpg "Philosophy and Professional Wrestling | Robert Gressis & Douglas Edwards [Sophia]
0:00 Doug’s new book, Philosophy Smackdown
14:45 Plato’s Cave and the three layers of wrestling reality
25:36 What it means when wrestlers break the fourth wall
32:21 Real life can be “just as scripted as wrestling, if not more so”
47:53 How and why moral virtue changed in wrestling
1:14:47 The only performance where people say “you know it’s fake, right?”
1:20:58 What philosophers could learn from professional wrestling
Robert Gressis (CSU Northridge) and Douglas Edwards (Utica College)
Recorded June 29, 2020
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![Call It Grace | Robert Wright & Serene Jones [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/71GW3SewdCM/hqdefault.jpg "Call It Grace | Robert Wright & Serene Jones [The Wright Show]
02:59 Serene’s new book, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World
13:12 Serene’s theological upbringing and early encounters with Calvin’s writings
18:31 What a romantic tragedy early in life taught Serene about God’s grace
28:59 A revelatory brush with death in rural India
39:05 Timothy McVeigh and the challenge of forgiveness
44:16 How Serene’s father met an epic challenge to his faith and his charity
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Serene Jones (Union Theological Seminary, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World)
Serenes new book, Call It Grace: Finding Meaning in a Fractured World: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735223645
Recorded June 18, 2019
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![The New Science of Self-Actualization | Robert Wright & Scott Barry Kaufman [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7A98zPnaYDg/hqdefault.jpg "The New Science of Self-Actualization | Robert Wright & Scott Barry Kaufman [The Wright Show]
Scott’s new book, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization 1:57
Debunking myths about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 7:02
The origins of humanistic psychology 14:33
Optimism for the thinking person 24:55
Psychological security in an era of new threats and superficial social connections 33:58
Psychological growth: exploration, love, and purpose 41:29
Defining “peak experiences” 54:41
Scott says Bob is a “transcender.” Bob is skeptical. 1:00:16
Is this a kind of secular spirituality? 1:04:55
Evaluating peak experiences achieved through psychedelics 1:16:38
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Scott Barry Kaufman (Imagination Institute, Wired to Create, scottbarrykaufman.com)
Recorded March 16, 2020
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