Collector spends $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall: The transforming power of genuine thanksgiving
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
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Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun just spent $6.2 million on a banana taped to a wall. He plans to eat it this week. According to the Pew Research Center, 91 percent of Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving with a meal and a blessing. But doesn’t gratitude logically require a person (or Person) to whom we are grateful? For thanksgiving to be a transforming lifestyle, it must be directed at a transforming source.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Monday, November the 25th, 2024. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:18.1 | We've all been living with grocery inflation, but this is something else. |
| 0:22.7 | Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin's son just spent $6.2 million on a banana taped to a wall. |
| 0:31.6 | He called his purchase, quote, not just an artwork, claiming that it represents a cultural phenomena that bridges the worlds of |
| 0:39.4 | art, memes, and cryptocurrency community, end quote. |
| 0:43.6 | He now plans to eat his multi-million dollar investment, but there is no word if it will be part |
| 0:49.1 | of his Thanksgiving dinner. |
| 0:50.7 | According to the Pew Research Center, 91% of Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving this week. |
| 0:56.2 | This comes at a time when global risks such as AI, asteroid and comet impacts, climate change, |
| 1:03.5 | nuclear war, severe pandemics, super volcanoes, and the rising specter of world War continue to nominate the news. |
| 1:12.3 | Perhaps the former is a beneficial way of responding to the latter. |
| 1:17.0 | No less an authority than the Harvard Medical School assures us that gratitude brings positive |
| 1:23.3 | health benefits. |
| 1:24.7 | Research associates thankfulness with social, emotional, and psychological well-being. |
| 1:30.2 | But here's my question. Does gratitude logically require a person or divine entity to whom we are |
| 1:36.8 | grateful? Thankfulness can be a generalized feeling, which may explain the fact that nearly two-thirds |
| 1:42.9 | of Americans will say a prayer or |
| 1:45.3 | pronounce a blessing at their Thanksgiving meal, while less than half of us are religious enough |
| 1:51.0 | to even have a membership in a church, synagogue, or mosque. However, feelings come and go, |
| 1:56.7 | depending on the circumstances of the moment. For Thanksgiving to be a transforming lifestyle, it must be directed at a transforming source. |
| 2:05.2 | It is one thing to be grateful for the benefits of electricity, for example, |
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