I hope that we can learn to see that dignity that's in all of us, that divinity that comes

when we organize together, when we meet each other face to face and even sometimes through

a chat room.

How to tell those stories, how to hold up those moments where we find our agency and our

ability to make a change.

You know, that's what I'm looking for and that's what I hope more than anything to contribute.

There is a kind of brilliance that flashes up in early adulthood, an ability to see the

world whole.

My guest today, Nathan Schneider, has been able to articulate and sustain that far-seeing

eye of young adulthood.

He's also a gifted writer, chronicling the world he and his compatriots are helping to

make spiritual, technological, communal.

With the growing number of non-religious young people, the force for the renewal of spiritual

traditions.

How might the internet of the future look utterly different from the internet of now?

And what did the Occupy movement really tap into and what has it become below the radar?

With Nathan Schneider, we explore the wisdom of a millennial generation public intellectual

on the emerging fabric of human identity.

I'm Chris DeTippet and this is on Being.

I spoke with Nathan Schneider in 2014 before a live audience at the outdoor hall of philosophy

of the Chattacua institution in Upstate New York.

When I set out to write the introduction to Nathan, I discovered his introduction of

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