Sarah Carey
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1,182 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Sarah Carey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the happiest I've ever felt in my life.
When you start doing things for other people, that is what gives you the biggest boost and the biggest meaning in your life.
And I think in terms of the trajectory of society, and maybe this is linked to the religion piece as well, it's the concept of individuality.
And I think the more money you get, the more people expect you to be able to conduct and manage your own life by yourself.
And that you just come into society for happy lunches and going to matches and things like that.
And I think that sense that actually we're not rocks, we're not islands.
You actually really still are dependent on your village.
However, that village may be constructed.
It may not be the geographic village.
You know, it could be, you know, your wider circle of friends, no matter where they are in the world.
But absolutely.
And there are two things we keep quoting other philosophers and experts, but of course, that's because they've been thinking about this more deeply than we have.
Tom Inglis, the UCD sociologist, I remember him being on my news talk show years and years ago and talking about religion.
He said that in the 1960s, as, you know, the reverence for institutional religion began to break down, you had a kind of spiritualism where people wanted to believe without belonging.
Okay.
You know, do the wrong thing.
Oh, I have a spiritual life.
I don't need to go to confession or be in a church or whatever it is.
But that has now evolved into people who want to belong without believing.
Even if they don't believe in God and all that goes with it, they recognize that the sense of being part of a religious community can bring a kind of consolation and comfort that's still very, very important to them.
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