ARCHIVE: Cindy Milstein on the revolutionary potential of death and grief.

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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From 2017: Writer Cindy Milstein explains how death and grief connect us to the collective nature of the human experience, revealing the potential for solidarity and compassion in the face of capitalism's commodification of the self, and showing us a new way of living together, right now, while we still have the time.

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0:00.0	This is hell.
0:05.0	Hey audience, producer Alex here.
0:09.6	Chuck is out today with inconsolable grief over the death of his brother Matt.
0:14.4	He keeps thinking that he's going to be good to do the show and then reality sets back in like
0:18.7	it does.
0:19.7	He's having a tough time, poor guy.
0:22.3	Don't know what's happening tomorrow, but for today, let's revisit a 2017 interview with writer
0:27.2	Cindy Milstein on the revolutionary potential of death and grief, silver linings I guess.
0:34.0	Back at it down the road, enjoy your loved ones while you got them.
0:37.0	Memento Mori, friends.
0:39.0	This is hell.
0:42.0	In death, we can find rebellion, even revolution. In death we can find the new culture
0:47.6	anarchists always seek but rarely find death can lead to the change we've all
0:52.2	been waiting for here to explain
0:54.9	Cindy Milstein is editor of the collection of essays
0:57.8	rebellious mourning the collective work of grief.
1:02.0	Welcome to this is Hell, Cindy.
1:04.0	Hi, thanks Chuck for having me on the show.
1:07.0	Cindy Mosestein, again editor of the Collection of Essays,
1:09.0	Rebellious Morning The Collective Work of Grief.
1:12.0	For more of
1:13.0	Cindy's writing you can find it at c.b millstein dot
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