In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- Our Sick Culture
- Disconnected and depressive
- We Are Deficient In Meaning
- More & more of us live without purpose and value
- Emotional Resilience
- Each of us has the ability to chart a better course
- Engaging Others
- How to help others break free, too
This week's Off The Cuff takes a more existential turn, as Chris and Charles focus on the many broken elements of today's culture, and the toxic effects they have on our quality of life. With so much social disconnectedness and disappearing prosperity, more and more of the population is simply surviving as opposed to living.
To have quality of life, it is becoming more important than ever for each of us to become the captain of our own destiny, and seek to break out of the current our culture is dragging us along with:
People need hope. They need the ability to build capital. They want to connect. They don’t necessarily want to get rich, but they want to have a wealth of connections, meaning, purpose, pride, right?
You strip all of that away and you've taken away their happiness and their humanity. So what we really need to focus on is this world is less derangement, less unhappiness. We need to provide people positive opportunities for connection. Positive opportunities to build their social and human capital and to make a wealth of connections.
If we look at “happy” people who aren’t wealthy, or
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