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Searching for American Utopia / Adrian Shirk

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Adrian Shirk talks to Chuck about her book "Heaven is a Place on Earth: Searching for American Utopia." In a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen takes the Party of Manson Family Values to task. A winner of the weekly Question from Hell! is chosen.

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We're born again. We're not.

0:13.0

We're born again.

0:15.0

We're done.

0:16.0

We're going to send what again.

0:17.0

Yeah. Oh, nice. I was.

0:23.0

I think it's

0:24.0

The And then

0:26.0

Make it back! This is hell.

0:37.0

live from land stolen from the Potawatomy people.

0:46.0

This is hell.

0:50.0

For some utopia is the chance at attaining a better life if not a paradise filled with

0:56.4

happiness and joy that gives life meaning real meaning meaning meaning beyond

1:01.0

the isolated individualized rat race of hyper-consumption

1:05.0

with which within which we find ourselves today.

1:09.0

But to many, as our guest on this show today reminds us any utopian experiment is

1:15.8

often just too naive too implausible too irresponsible too out there to work yet that sense of the impossible, if not the implausible, hasn't stopped

1:26.5

countless attempts at building a utopian community, especially here in the United States.

1:30.8

In our current world that insist there is no alternative,

1:36.1

it would seem the pursuit of a utopia is futile, but without that imagination, that

1:41.0

hope for a better world and future. Without that belief that yes

1:44.6

another world is possible it would be easy for us to believe that we are all

1:48.9

trapped where we find ourselves today without an escape from what can be a very grim reality.

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