I've thought for the past few years that perhaps it is the sense of like growing precarity and uncertainty in the modern world, especially for people who were previously sort of protected or promised to enter into or at least stay in the middle class. And with the American dream being taken away, everything that modern capitalism promised to then sort of have the capacity to engage with ones on identity doesn't leave people with very much. I think that if you can imagine so much is flooding in now from where it's sort of, but I would say that to be able to sit with loss of identity, it's hard,. But it's also almost like the structure, you know, the infrastructure you need
If politics is broken—what's the alternative?
Indra Adnan is an author, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist. She's also the founder of The Alternative UK political platform and a global consultant on soft power. For over twenty years, Indra has been writing, consulting, network-building and event-organising on the themes of future politics, conflict transformation, the role of the arts and integral thinking.
She joins me to discuss the problem with narratives peddled by mainstream media, the power of story, and how to reimagine the story of now in order to get people excited about building a new future together. This episode covers so much, exploring conflict, creativity, education, the economy, disconnection, and gives a vision of a new politics centred around relationships.
“Conflict can be the very thing that shows you what's wrong: there's something amiss with our relationships in this society, we need to flush this out. If you're doing it well, it can lead to the transformation of that society.
“But if you're simply buying into the conflict as an opportunity to gain power over the other side, that it's a zero sum game, then it's going to lead to violence.”
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