Introducing Future Perfect: The Way Through

Future Perfect

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Tech News, News

4.5 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We’re living through challenging times: a pandemic, a historic economic collapse, racial injustice, and social unrest. But it would be a mistake to believe that what we’re experiencing is somehow unique in human experience. People have confronted crises for millennia, grappling with the same anguish and anxiety we’re feeling now. And they’ve left us with rich wisdom about how to navigate suffering. There’s comfort in that — and that’s the idea at the heart of a new podcast series from Vox’s Future Perfect. In eight episodes hosted by Vox’s Sean Illing and Sigal Samuel, we’ll explore different philosophical teachings and faith traditions from around the world to help us process what we’re living through — and maybe even find something meaningful, ennobling, and fortifying in this common experience. More to explore: Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are interconnected.
0:04.0	When a black person is able to obtain justice and peace, all people are going to benefit.
0:12.0	We have been suddenly plunged into an existential crisis, and we're not a society in general that turns to deep questions of life meaning.
0:28.7	Hey, everyone. I'm Sean Elling, senior interviews writer at Vox.com. I'm Sigal Samuel, staff writer at Vox's
0:35.7	Future Perfect. Together, we're launching a new podcast mini-series called The Way Through.
0:41.0	Every Wednesday, we'll talk with theologians, philosophers, and other thinkers about the challenges of this moment and how the best ideas can help us all get through it.
0:50.4	Sean and I are both philosophy nerds, and I'm also a former religion reporter.
0:55.1	So this is our attempt to mind the world's richest wisdom traditions for some guidance that can help us through
1:00.5	these crazy times, a scary pandemic, a huge economic collapse, racial injustice, and social unrest.
1:08.9	We'll bring on the smartest people we can find to discuss everything from Buddhist
1:13.1	meditations on race to Albert Camus the plague, to how to turn all this trauma and
1:19.5	suffering into something useful.
1:21.3	So look for a new episode of The Way Through every Wednesday starting July 1st in the
1:25.4	Future Perfect Feed.
1:26.3	You can also find us on Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to Podcast.

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