Rainn Wilson
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3,063 appearances
12 recordings
7 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Rainn Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But perhaps if you hadn't been an immigrant kid and you had just grown up in Scarsdale, New York, and your parents had not had to get double PhDs and sweep floors, and you weren't teased for your accent and picked on and bullied,
and you had just grown up in an average middle-class life that you wouldn't be bringing the light and knowledge and truth that you're bringing to the world in the way that you are, you would have settled for a more comfortable life that was just more about personal pleasure and satisfaction.
I don't know.
There's a quote from Plato to be kind to everyone you meet because everyone is fighting a harder battle.
I think Robin Williams said something very similar to like, we don't know the battles that people are fighting.
So just the choice is to just be kind all the time.
And I think that's true.
You don't know, I've certainly worked in Hollywood for a long time and I've met some people that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars that are insanely good looking and have everything going for them and the world adores them and they're some of the most miserable people you'd ever meet.
and they have their struggles and we just don't know.
Yes, yes.
Not communication, but connection.
And that's exactly right.
In the Geography of Bliss, the show that I did for Peacock a year or two back, looking for happiness around the world, that's what it all boiled down to.
It's all community.
It's all connection.
We're social beings.
We're tribal beings, which can have its bad aspects of tribalism and its good aspects of tribalism.
but it is in community and support and love and mutual service and commonality, acceptance.
That's where people find a real joy.
And it certainly doesn't seem like contemporary American or Western culture is leading us towards ever greater connection and community.
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