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#15 Humor As Resistance - Dwarfs As Mechanisms of Liberation
Jun 22, 2026
14m 54s
14. Humor as Resistance - Carnival and Street Theater
Jun 16, 2026
19m 16s
13. Humor as Resistance: Rude Humor - Commedia Dell'Arte
Jun 9, 2026
17m 09s
# 12. Humor as Resistance - The Court Jester
May 29, 2026
23m 20s
#11 - A Trumpery Campaign
May 9, 2026
22m 16s
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| 6/22/26 |  #15 Humor As Resistance - Dwarfs As Mechanisms of Liberation | Comments? Send me a text message. In communist Poland in the 1980s, Solidarity had been driven underground. Martial law. Leaders imprisoned. On the surface, the regime had won. Then an art history student named Waldemar Fydrych — known as Major — painted a grinning dwarf on a freshly whitewashed wall. Not a slogan. Not a demand. A dwarf. Episode 15 of Flourish in Times of Struggle explores Poland's Orange Alternative — the surrealist, carnivalesque resistance movement that embedded itself wit... | 14m 54s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 |  14. Humor as Resistance - Carnival and Street Theater | Comments? Send me a text message. Continuing the series on humor as resistance, dissent, and liberation, this episode explores what happens when the Dionysian impulse takes to the streets. Freed from the confines of a performance space, the separation between performer and observer dissolves. Performance, provocation, and protest become inseparable. The comedy becomes the political act of liberation. In this episode I follow the tradition of rude humor as it spills out of the theater into the... | 19m 16s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 |  13. Humor as Resistance: Rude Humor - Commedia Dell'Arte✨ | political humorrude humor+3 | — | commedia dell'arte | — | humorpolitical humor+5 | — | 17m 09s | |
| 5/29/26 |  # 12. Humor as Resistance - The Court Jester✨ | humorpower+4 | — | The Court Jester | — | humorcourt jester+5 | — | 23m 20s | |
| 5/9/26 |  #11 - A Trumpery Campaign✨ | politicsdeceit+3 | — | — | — | trumperydeceit+4 | — | 22m 16s | |
| 5/6/26 |  #10 Humor As Resistance: Lessons from Ancient Greece✨ | humorpolitical resistance+4 | — | The KnightsLysistrata | Athens | humorpolitical resistance+4 | — | 21m 04s | |
| 4/29/26 |  #9. The Dehumanization Template✨ | dehumanizationpolitical control+3 | — | — | — | dehumanizationpolitical control+4 | — | 22m 27s | |
| 3/30/26 |  #8 Boycotts as Tools of Resistance and Reconstruction✨ | boycottsresistance+3 | — | Lysistrata | — | boycottsresistance+5 | — | 20m 20s | |
| 3/13/26 |  #7 When People Become Disposable.✨ | human valuemoral crisis+3 | — | — | — | disposable peoplemoral crisis+7 | — | 14m 19s | |
| 2/25/26 |  #6 Positive Freedom: Resistance Isn't Enough✨ | freedomresistance+3 | — | On Freedom | UkraineRussia | freedomresistance+6 | — | 13m 46s | |
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| 2/4/26 |  #5. Movement Ecology: The Work of Social Movements✨ | social movementsauthoritarianism+4 | — | — | — | Movement Ecologysocial movements+4 | — | 19m 55s | |
| 1/27/26 |  #4 Beyond No: Building YES Coalitions for What Comes Next✨ | activismcoalitions+3 | — | — | — | YES coalitionsNO coalitions+3 | — | 12m 32s | |
| 1/19/26 | #3 Lessons from MLK's LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL✨ | civil disobediencejust laws+3 | — | LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL | — | MLKcivil disobedience+5 | — | 14m 10s | |
| 1/13/26 |  #2 - How Your Zip Code Influences Longevity and Well-Being✨ | longevitypublic policy+4 | — | — | United States | zip codelongevity+5 | — | 15m 52s | |
| 1/5/26 |  #1 - Year One: Building a Flourishing Democracy✨ | democracypolitical upheaval+4 | — | — | — | democracywell-being+5 | — | 8m 02s | |
| 9/29/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #12 - The Pre-Motor Cortex and the Default Mode Network | Comments? Send me a text message. Our accidental mind is a marvel of evolution—capable of breathtaking creativity, yet vulnerable to distraction, self-deception, and runaway ego. In this week’s Welcoming Wisdom podcast, we explore two unlikely partners in this drama: the premotor cortex and the default mode network (DMN). The premotor cortex rehearses actions before we move, allowing us to simulate outcomes and imagine future possibilities.The default mode network weaves our sense of self and... | 15m 21s | ||||||
| 9/23/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #11 - The Obstetric Dilemma | Comments? Send me a text message. The Obstetric Dilemma and the Birth of the Plastic Brain What happens when evolution backs itself into a corner? In this episode of Flourish As You Age, Michael C. Patterson explores one of the most profound evolutionary compromises of all: the obstetric dilemma. As our ancestors evolved upright posture and larger brains, childbirth became a dangerous bottleneck. The solution wasn’t elegant but it was effective—babies began to be born earlier, with brains sti... | 10m 25s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 | Singing Our Way Into Flourishing: Encore Creativity + Pasadena Villages | Comments? Send me a text message. This month’s podcast episode tells the story of how two remarkable organizations—Encore Creativity, the nation’s largest choral program for older adults, and Pasadena Villages, a thriving part of the Village Movement—came together to launch a new singing ensemble in Southern California. At first glance, it’s a story about a choir. But look closer and it becomes a story about aging well, intergenerational collaboration, and the power of music to lift health, j... | 21m 38s | ||||||
| 9/8/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #10 - Working Memory: The Whiteboard of Consciousness | Comments? Send me a text message. In this episode of Flourish As You Age, Michael C. Patterson explores working memory, the fragile mental workspace where consciousness itself takes shape. Think of it as the virtual whiteboard of the mind—a place where perceptions and memories flicker into awareness, linger just long enough to be combined or reshaped, and then fade to make room for new thoughts. Working memory may be limited, but it is also the platform of conscious life: the stage on which r... | 16m 31s | ||||||
| 9/1/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #9 - The Kluge Within: Navigating the Accidental Mind | Comments? Send me a text message. In this episode of Flourish As You Age, Michael C. Patterson explores the “accidental mind”—not a perfectly engineered machine, but a brilliant kluge (pronounced klooj): an evolutionary patchwork that works despite its awkward design. Drawing from David Linden and Iain McGilchrist, we look at why the brain’s jury-rigged architecture needs scaffolding—culture, contemplation, and mature perspective—to function wisely. You’ll hear about: Why evolution builds “go... | 11m 13s | ||||||
| 8/25/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #8 - Mature Creativity | Comments? Send me a text message. In this episode, Michael C. Patterson traces the creative landscape of later life — from Dr. Gene Cohen’s groundbreaking research on creative aging, to Twyla Tharp’s fierce manifesto for movement, to the wide horizons of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sky Above Clouds. He concludes with a reflection on how artificial intelligence has become a collaborative partner in extending his mature mind. The episode is a compelling exploration of how creativity, adaptability, and n... | 15m 51s | ||||||
| 7/21/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #7 - Developmental Intelligence: The Super Power of the Mature Mind | Comments? Send me a text message. In this episode, host Michael C. Patterson explores Dr. Gene Cohen’s groundbreaking concept of developmental intelligence—the idea that our minds can continue growing in complexity, depth, and wisdom throughout life. Drawing on Cohen’s framework for postformal thinking—relativistic, dualistic, and systematic—Michael shares insights from his book Welcoming Wisdom and discusses how mature minds can cultivate new ways of seeing, thinking, and contributing to a f... | 18m 16s | ||||||
| 7/16/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #6 - Mature Minds and the Sky Above Clouds | Comments? Send me a text message. In this episode of Flourish As You Age, host Michael C. Patterson explores the often-overlooked strengths of the mature mind. Drawing from his upcoming book Welcoming Wisdom, he challenges the myth of inevitable cognitive decline, offering instead a vision of aging as a period of continued mental development, creative growth, and integrative insight. Through reflections on Plato’s Republic, Anne Rice’s wise vampire Marius, and Dr. Gene Cohen’s beloved metapho... | 10m 28s | ||||||
| 7/14/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #5 - The Time to Flourish | Comments? Send me a text message. What happens when we finally get the free time we longed for—only to find it strangely unsettling? In this episode of Flourish As You Age, host Michael C. Patterson explores leisure as a vital (and often overlooked) condition of human flourishing. Drawing from his book Welcoming Wisdom, he traces how cultural expectations around work have shaped our identity, how the pandemic opened space for reimagining daily life, and how emerging technologies may lea... | 12m 18s | ||||||
| 7/7/25 | Welcoming Wisdom #4 - Awe, Ethics, and the Sacred Path to Flourishing | Comments? Send me a text message. In this final episode of our opening series on Flourishing, we explore the deeper dimensions of what it means to live a meaningful and well-lived life. Drawing from awe research, contemplative neuroscience, and classical philosophy, we reflect that flourishing is not a fixed state but an emergent, relational process—one shaped by attention, moral insight, and reverence for life itself. You’ll hear excerpts from Welcoming Wisdom: How Mature Minds Can Shape a K... | 17m 19s | ||||||
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