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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build |
0:04.9 | the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. |
0:07.9 | Fetzer's sharing Spiritual Heritage Report asks, how will we hold on to ancient wisdom |
0:13.1 | traditions while applying them creatively in today's time? |
0:16.9 | Learn more at Fetzer.org. |
0:19.8 | As any student of history knows, when time becomes history, very different dynamics come |
0:25.8 | into focus than the ones that are at any moment screaming for attention. |
0:30.9 | In our world of digital megaphones that privilege the immediate, it becomes harder to tell the |
0:36.6 | difference between what feels urgent and is actually important, actually poised to shift |
0:43.2 | the world on its axis. |
0:45.7 | So I was excited when Gal Beckerman's new book arrived, the title itself intrigues |
0:51.2 | and compels the quiet before. |
0:55.3 | He is a journalist with a special interest in history and words and ideas, how ideas are |
1:01.2 | past and debated and become defining in generational time, how conversation becomes culture shifting |
1:08.8 | relationship. |
1:10.8 | He attends to dynamics, we don't often take seriously enough, that every idea and discovery |
1:16.6 | that changes the world begins with seeds planted over long stretches and is always marked |
1:23.0 | by passages that look like abject failure. |
1:26.8 | Gal Beckerman offers fantastically useful insights into how our generations, media that can |
1:33.0 | scale things more rapidly than ever before can also inhibit the very ingredients that make |
1:39.5 | for lasting transformation. |
1:42.6 | At the same time, this lens on our world refreshes with its perspective on the way change happens |
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