Sean Carroll
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26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5d ago
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is this something you think that really, when we're being super honest with ourselves, poetry or the humanities more broadly can help us with?
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has
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Yeah, no, absolutely.
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And you're right, we're seeing it.
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I think we don't even need to go into details because everyone knows that we're seeing it.
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They're being bombarded by it all the time.
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I do wonder on the flip side, I think when people talk about democracy, when people are doing the work of democracy, they often think of it as persuading other people.
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to agree with them, less about listening to what other people are saying.
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And I'm wondering if thinking rigorously about things like poetry and literature in the humanities can help on that side as well, like actually trying to have a conversation that is two-way rather than just
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mean,
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I did want to ask about, there are sections in your book that confront tragedy and other sources of uncertainty in life, and you try to make the case that poetry and writing can help here.
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Your husband, Ficre, passed away tragically a few years ago, and you write about that, and it's really compelling and moving, and I have friends who are writers who
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who have struggled writing about their tragedies.
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They don't want to deal with that.
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Like, you know, it's too much.
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And I'm wondering if you had a feeling about that sort of too muchness versus, oh, actually, it's really helpful to think this through carefully and put it into words.
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me in
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And he did have this fantastic life, including being an immigrant, a refugee, which is also something that you take advantage of in terms of using poetry.
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