108. Commusings: Navigating Post-Truth

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Each week Jeff has been writing a Sunday article called Commusings where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. Today, we trace the decay of trust in science and journalism and discuss how individual citizens can help maintain the cohesion of society. To receive the Commusings newsletter, you can go to onecommune.com and sign up at the bottom of the page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:14.3	We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together.
0:22.1	This is the Commune podcast where each week we explore the ideas and practices
0:27.1	that help us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life.
0:32.5	In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and personal development,
0:38.0	Commune also offers an array of social impact courses, including unwinding prejudice,
0:43.5	redefining leadership, and organize March. If you are interested in enrolling in any of those
0:49.7	course offerings for free, please email me at Jeff K at Onecommun.com. Right now, we can all benefit from
0:59.9	learning and growing in order to better serve our communities. So I've started writing a weekly Sunday
1:07.9	article called commusings, where I wax alternately poetic and pathetic
1:13.8	around spirituality, philosophy, culture, and current events. And on occasion, I will also
1:22.1	record these screeds as bonus episodes for this podcast. So this week's commusing focuses on the erosion of
1:32.1	social cohesion and how we can be responsible citizens in post-truth America. My name is Jeff
1:40.7	Krasno and welcome to Commune.
1:43.7	Hi. is Jeff Krasno and welcome to Commune. And now for the next 30 minutes, as the world turns.
2:05.6	And I gave it a great deal of thought, Grandpa.
2:08.6	Here is a bulletin from CBS News.
2:11.6	From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time.
2:28.5	Navigating Post-Truth. On November 22nd, 1963, Arthur and Adeline sink into their divan to digest their chicken salad sandwiches.
2:39.0	Per their post-lunch ritual, they flip on their guilty pleasure, as the world turns.
2:45.0	Just minutes into the program, the soap opera is interrupted by a news flash concerning an incident in Dallas, Texas with the presidential motorcade.
2:54.5	The episode continues only to be suspended again, just minutes later.
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