Raf, so many things resonate. “…every player was as human as I am.” Yes, we are multitudes, in that sense of high-dimensional, contradictory, time and circumstance influenced beings. I could be someone’s villain and another’s hero. I could be thought of as the worst and the best, all at the same time. While we might uphold certain values, as humans we struggle everyday to understand what they mean in practice. We fail and keep trying. As individuals we form collectives to shape our world, though our lifetimes are often too short to see what will emerge.
Jena, I could say exactly the same of your podcast! My wife and I were watching Bridgerton the other day and I couldn't stop thinking about how the pre-Freudian aristocracy had totally different concepts of time, responsibility, and selfhood before they became analysands!
Raf, so many things resonate. “…every player was as human as I am.” Yes, we are multitudes, in that sense of high-dimensional, contradictory, time and circumstance influenced beings. I could be someone’s villain and another’s hero. I could be thought of as the worst and the best, all at the same time. While we might uphold certain values, as humans we struggle everyday to understand what they mean in practice. We fail and keep trying. As individuals we form collectives to shape our world, though our lifetimes are often too short to see what will emerge.
Exactly! “I could be someone’s villain and another’s hero” = spot on 💯
Really breathtaking insights.
Jena, I could say exactly the same of your podcast! My wife and I were watching Bridgerton the other day and I couldn't stop thinking about how the pre-Freudian aristocracy had totally different concepts of time, responsibility, and selfhood before they became analysands!