Dacher Keltner
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It is unlike anything.
Really?
They're environmentalists, they're radicals, they're hunters, they're sports people, and it unites them in a sense of common spirit.
So it's worth remembering the big sources of awe that bring us together.
The Constitution is awe-inspiring as it documented.
Yeah, and you can go for $20.
Anybody goes.
There's a program for fourth-grade kids to go, put together by John Jarvis, the former director of the parks.
So it's a unifying American experience, and it transcends our concerns in the moment about...
you know, taxation or immigrants or the like.
So there are things that we can cultivate.
Yeah, I mean, I worry about this a lot and having raised two daughters and teach young people up at Berkeley and see the effects of our times, 90% rise in anxiety in young people.
90% rise.
Yeah, it's epidemic.
And so what the science of awe tells us is get them off the junk of their devices.
And there's a lot of moral ugliness.
Let them wander, give them more spare time.
And then let them do the things that we de-prioritize of music and visual arts.
And the ones that I really like, Oprah, that I think we've de-emphasized are
moral beauty, you know, get them to reflect on the people who move them.