A conversation with Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin
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A conversation with Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin
As we head into the long weekend, I hope you’ll take the time to watch my fascinating discussion with Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin, a Harvard Medical School philosopher, who recently co-wrote “The Left Needs a Spiritual Renaissance. So Does America” with Senator Chris Murphy. We talk about how America finds itself in a period of decline, what must happen to pull itself out of it, and what Democrats need to change to take on Trump.
You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
A very insightful interview, thank you for facilitating & sharing. It seems like the unbridled human instincts of greed & fear have become the impetus of modern living!
When life dreams of "the greedy" appear to be threatened, paranoia sets in and unleashes unsubstansiated FEARS directly related to personal losses! Such enormous tension, anxiety & stress has begun to manifest in unfavorable patterns of thoughts, words & behaviors of resistance toward any person, place or thing outside of one's familiar circle of associates.
The level of DISTRUST between those we see everyday, seems beyond repair! Humanity seem to have forgotten that we were all ONE, before race, money, politics & religion separated us!
The only HOPE we have of overcoming such political & religious polarization will be in our willingness to embrace Spirit & Truth!
Steve, thank you for this. I've been saying for 5 decades that if Democrats (and independents like Bernie Sanders) would speak more about "engaged spirituality" or "sacred activism" for the sake of justice for all, and promoting all the godly virtues and values (like Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hanh, MLK Jr, Bobby Kennedy and Cesar Chavez), they would win probably 75%-80% of elections.
That's why i talk so much about spirituality in these comment threads for your brilliant Substack "The Warning" columns....
There's only one party of the two major parties that in its policy-making truly stands for "the sanctity of (sentient) life." And that's the traditional progressive Democrats (not the corporatist sell-outs like those DLC "new Democrats" led by MacAuliffe, B. Clinton, Joe Lieberman, et al. from the late 1990s onward who kept stealing primaries with corporate mega-donor money).
By contrast, it really does seem that the GOP's fascist authoritarianism seems hell-bent on stomping upon everything truly sacred -- and on destroying life as we know it due to their deregulation policies and other policies preventing any mitigation of climate catastrophe and ravaging nearly all ecosystems.
Not to mention the GOP's unshakeable, draconian opposition to raising the minimum wage, universal healthcare, universal childcare, food stamps (renamed SNAP), etc. etc. that would benefit the vast majority of Americans, not just their corporate overlords.