House of Life is returning soon for Season 2. Last year in Season 1 we asked what sustainability really means, diving down some unusual rabbit holes to figure out what truly matters to create a positive world, and in the process found a lot of things that either don’t make sense, or are simply missing from the mainstream conversation. For a summary of last season, check out Asim’s recent article about his learnings from our conversations last year — ‘What is sustainability?’
Onwards, to the new season…
What are we covering in Season 2?
In this next season, we’re exploring the nature of truth and whether it really matters.
Last year we found many parts of our society’s mainstream narratives that don’t quite stack up, leading Asim to ask:
What if everything we’ve been told is a lie? Not necessarily a conspiracy, it could just be stories that got repeated so often they started to be treated like facts.
This wasn’t an entirely new revelation, but something that had been unfolding for a few years:
And once you see one crack, you start seeing them everywhere. In the official stories, in the things we’re told are crazy that turn out to be true.
So Asim asked if this season we could pull on some of those threads, poke around, and see what falls apart.
For Tom, this seasons topic is less about the lies and more about:
How do we live in these times of uncertainty?
AI, information overload, polarisation of seemingly everything.
He doesn’t think the answer is finding the “right” narrative to cling to. His hypothesis is that we need to learn how to hold multiple possibilities and contradictions so that we can transcend polarisation and find balance in an unbalanced world.
So I want to explore how to think, feel, and live well when nobody really knows what’s going on. Without losing our humanity in the process.
So we’ll be exploring the nature of truth, in a world where it seems increasingly difficult to see clearly. We’re not here to debunk. We’re not here to take sides. We’re just two friends asking questions, poking fun at serious topics, and trying to figure things out.
In the first episode of Season 2, coming soon, we’ll be asking how you can tell if this podcast is even real. There might be some clues in the trailer video!
So we invite you to join us in House of Life, Season 2.
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