Thought Lounge Podcast

Participants and topics of this Thought Lounge include: Matthew Huang on Will Humans ever be Content in Nature? (00:52) Professor Gelvin on the ISIS Crisis (13:00) Miggy Betancourt on Kindness (26:20) Rivka Cohen on Everyone is a little bit Psychopathic (41:20) and Axel Cramer on the C.U.T. Manifesto (54:24) For more on Professor James Gelvin visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Gelvin Will humankind ever be content with it's place in nature, or will we forever be innovating our way into and out of problems? Perhaps we must learn to empathize with the environment as we might with a fellow human-being. Or perhaps we can, once and for all, innovate our way to ecological sustainability and world peace. The "ISIS Crisis" is an example of a situation that will require outside innovation and intervention to resolve. In order to understand how to successfully intervene, we must summon a huge amount of empathy and a push back against blanket statements such as "ISIS is evil and psychopathic." Such stateme