Apocalyptic language is everywhere: in the marketing copy of wellness influencers and pseudo-documentary makers selling spike protein detoxes and vaccine fear-mongering videos, and in the fervent anti-trans panic stoked by right-wing Substackers.

How we use language — and we use that how language to inspire actions — is everything.

Derek imagines a better use of language, and of understanding, through the lens modern secular Buddhism.

Show Notes

The World-Ending Fire — Wendell Berry

A Paradise Built in Hell — Rebecca Solnit

After Buddhism — Stephen Batchelor

Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist — Stephen Batchelor

Buddhism — Alan Watts

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Bonus Sample: Reimagining the Apocalypse