We're in the Grilling Pains Right Now

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i completely agree that our narrative is a fucking wack it's been out of wack that the whole you know life out of balancing i was talking about earlier like we definitely modern society is totallyucking out of balance. technology work is pretty much for a lot of good stuff has also enabled a lot of bad shit and just like how drugs can be amazing like penicillin and antibiotics could save us that's what's happening right now my hope is that we have like an enlightenment 2.0 where we're having this conversation whereas previously we wouldn't have been able to do so.

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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