The Embodiment Coaching Podcast
560. The Way Is Awkward Not Forward - With Bayo Akomolafe
Dec 22, 2023
Bayo Akomolafe, self-styled writer, speaker, and activist, discusses 'story as a lie', being an intellectual, African embodiment, colonization, eloquence, polarization, cancel culture, post-activism, breakdown of culture, hyper individuality, gender, and more.
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- The stability of conservative and progressive views in politics is breaking down, requiring a different kind of aesthetics that challenges the familiar and opens up new possibilities.
- Cancel culture, while a response to the limitations of politics, often repeats the same dynamics it seeks to challenge, reducing solidarity to individual choice or rigid categorizations.
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The breaking point of politics and the need for a third way
There is a breaking point in politics where both sides, conservative and progressive, limit the ways we see and engage with the world. The stability that comes from these views is breaking down. A different kind of aesthetics is needed, a trickster that challenges the familiar and opens up new possibilities.
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