Yelad, You Want to Go Through It?

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It really feels like a secret societyy. Or if you take it in another direction, like a deity. Yo, there's at hierarchy like thers, demigods. Ye, that's i think definitely. It's hard to ignore that possibility of you're coming up with interpretations. So, yelad, you want to go through it? He's woken up in the morning on his thirtieth birthday. Member, how long ago that was? Just a little tiny bit longer than it was for you. And he's only now becoming aware that this whole other world exists,. and a sort of bbewildered by it.

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the circumstances of its publication, the various interpretative approaches that can be taken to the novel, and all the ways that Kafka’s prose gets under your skin, making you feel what’s happening even if you don’t fully understand it. Recorded in the decidedly un-Kafka-esque location of Nosara, Costa Rica – thanks to the Harmony Hotel for having us back!

Plus – Social Psychologists for Peace send an open letter to Vladimir Putin urging him to reverse course on the tragic invasion of Ukraine. Putin seems intent on toppling the Ukranian government but has he considered Sherif et al (1961), Tajfel (1977), Festinger (1954), and Brewer (1991)?