RADICAL NUANCE: Refusing Happiness - A special episode
Moment of Clarity
Lee Camp
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In a system that creates so much pain, the demand for happiness is
insidious at best. It is a cover for violence - like fresh snowfall
on a toxic waste dump.
Refusing this imposed demand for happiness is also then a path
towards refusing the imposed structures of pain and suffering,
recognizing that life must always include pain. Our goal should not
be to avoid all pain but to know the difference between a pain that
is a natural outgrowth of life and one that is forced upon us.
I'll also dig into how the demand for happiness dehumanizes us, and
those we demand it of, the importance of engaging with our pain and
the pain of others, a few musings on kids, and more!
Lemme know how y'all feel about the refusal of happiness.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to, it depends on what you think this podcast is called. |
| 0:07.0 | It's called Dangerous Ideas on my live streams, which also become podcasts. |
| 0:11.2 | So you often hear me say, welcome to dangerous ideas. |
| 0:13.6 | It's called Moment of Clarity on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:17.3 | And it's called Lee Camp Show on on Spotify because Spotify banned the original podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Anyway, whatever you want to call it. |
| 0:24.5 | You do that. |
| 0:25.7 | But thank you for listening. |
| 0:26.9 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:27.7 | We're doing something special this week. |
| 0:28.9 | We're going to play, well, let's be specific. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm going to play an episode of Eleanor Goldfield's radical nuance. |
| 0:38.4 | Radical nuance is Eleanor's newer project. |
| 0:41.9 | It is just her, and it is a political philosophy kind of podcast. |
| 0:50.5 | And it is different than a lot of the other stuff she does, a lot of the stuff I do. And it really is a really cool and magical podcast. So I would love for you to listen to this episode. And if you enjoy it, if you even want to just, you know, hear a little more to decide. If you want to hear more, then check it out. It's free to listen to. Again, it's called Radical Nluence. You can find it on any |
| 1:12.6 | podcast platform. And this episode that we're going to play here is about the way the system imposes |
| 1:20.7 | a certain path of so-called happiness on us. And we're all trying to go down this happiness path and you know are you happy |
| 1:32.1 | is a common question in our society and anyway she's going to do it much better than i can so |
| 1:36.7 | i'm going to let her do it uh because she's uh it's a brilliant uh thought exercise as as i think |
| 1:43.9 | a lot of radical nuance episodes are. |
| 1:46.1 | So I hope you enjoy this. |
| 1:47.9 | And I hope that if you even just like it a little bit, I hope you will check out more episodes. |
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