Democracy as a Practice of Care | Jeremy David Engels
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The episode discusses democracy as a practice of care with guest Jeremy David Engels, who presents a reimagined Declaration of Interdependence.
Hi friends! The Mind Bod Squad is BACK! After a few months apart (Jeff squirreled away up in BC, Tasha bummin’ around in Toronto), we’re returning to you on this, America’s birthweek. And we’re here to celebrate INTERdependence instead of independence. This week we’re hanging with Jeremy David Engels — Penn State rhetoric professor, yoga teacher, student of meditation, and author of the gorgeous little book On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World . Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, Jeremy has done an audacious thing: he rewrote it as a Declaration of Inter dependence. His new iteration has the same word count and same shape, but where the original lists “27 grievances against the king”, Jeremy offers 27 insights into democracy as a practice of care : caring for ourselves, caring for each other, and caring for the life we share. After all, he argues, there’s already enough grievances to go around. Maybe it’s time for a change. And Americans, as your loving continental siblings to the north, we can definitively say, we like this version better. 😅 We talk about: - What it means to treat democracy as a daily…
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