Ep. 613 – Finding Unity in Divisive Times: Morals, Media & the Human Condition with Danny Goldberg

Offering a perspective of hope and unity, Danny Goldberg and Raghu Markus explore morality, polarization, and how negative media drives collective anxiety.

Pre-order Danny’s upcoming book, Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles

This time on Mindrolling, Raghu and Danny discuss:

• The uproar surrounding the brutal beating of Rodney King by the L.A. police
• Seeing history as the study of change, and looking into how history impacts our lives today
• How the human condition largely remains the same century after century
• The inner conflict between morals: choosing what is right vs. what feels safe
• Building bridges by connecting over universal human values instead of polarizing politics
• Healing our felt sense of separation by remembering that we are all interconnected
• Those who feel they are losing power when others make progress
• The seduction of negative news media and how it feeds collective anxiety and division
• Finding perspective by remembering that every era faces troubling times
• Considering the Sermon on the Mount as a moral compass
• Learning to honor fear without being a slave to it 

Click HERE to pre-order There is No Other by Ram Dass, with contributions from Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, and more. 

About Danny Goldberg:

Danny Goldberg is an author and music executive who has spent decades in the business. As a manager, Danny’s clients included Bonnie Raitt, Nirvana, The Allman Brothers Band, and Sonic Youth. As a label executive he was President of Atlantic Records, and Chairman of Warner Bros Records and the Mercury Records Group – among others. Danny Goldberg’s previous books include Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment and Resistance to Trump, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, How The Left Lost Teen Spirit, Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside The Rock and Roll Business and In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. Learn more about Danny and his work HERE.

Check out the article Culture, Empathy and Resistance by Danny Goldberg and the book NEXUS by Yuval Noah Harari

“People always say to me, ‘It’s never been this way’. That’s just absolutely not true. We had slavery in this country. Women couldn't vote until 1920. Homosexuality, you could still go to jail up until the 60s for it. The AIDS epidemic during the Reagan period. Not to mention human history, the Crusades, and the Holocaust. There have been many, many dreadful times.’” – Danny Goldberg

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