S1 / E3 A Land of Contradictions w/ Guest Anand Giridharadas
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Some people talk and all we want to do is listen. Author and journalist Anand Giridharadas is one of those people. His most recent book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, explores the rigging of the American system and how even the most altruistic billionaires are doing more harm than good while ostensibly "giving back" to society.
The two also dive deep into America's dark history while acknowledging its light, what Marianne refers to as the "both and" that's embedded in our country from its founding. Looking to the future, they talk about how the country can move forward and how we can form a more just society for all.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Maryam Williamson, and thank you so much for being here with me today for conversations |
| 0:19.8 | that matter. |
| 0:21.0 | You know, some people talk, and we all want to listen, and un-injureded Oz is certainly |
| 0:25.4 | one of those people for me. |
| 0:27.3 | He is a writer most recently of a book called Winners Take All, the elite charade of changing |
| 0:32.6 | the world. |
| 0:33.6 | Recently published in 2018, his other books are The True American Murder and Mercy in |
| 0:39.4 | Texas about a Muslim immigrants campaign to spare from death row the white supremacists |
| 0:45.1 | to try to kill him. |
| 0:46.8 | And also a book called India Calling, an intimate portrait of a nation's remaking about |
| 0:51.6 | his own returning to India after his parents had left. |
| 0:54.6 | Un-injury me today so that we could talk about what's really happening in America. |
| 0:58.7 | That to me is the thread that has woven throughout this podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | How did we get to where we are? |
| 1:04.0 | If we don't have a deeper understanding of how we got to where we are, we don't have |
| 1:07.3 | a deep understanding of where we are now. |
| 1:09.1 | And if we don't have an understanding of those two things, we don't know where to go |
| 1:12.5 | from here. |
| 1:13.5 | So un-injureded Oz is someone who to me has a lot of insight about all three of those questions. |
| 1:18.7 | I hope that you enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:21.4 | Un-injureded Oz, thank you so much for being with me today. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm so happy to be with you. |
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