Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World
Life is a Festival #82: Jordan Hall
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The world seems just a bit crazier every single day right now. Luckily on this week’s show we have the guiding light of a brilliant thinker I’ve admired for years, Jordan Hall (formerly Jordan Greenhall). I first discovered Jordan after reading his Situational Assessment in 2017 and his essay On Sovereignty which was pivotal in my the maturation of my worldview.
On the show we begin with my own challenge in transcending myopic preoccupation with personal growth for its own sake and how trying to live an epic story can interfere with our personal sovereignty. The interview is then interrupted and we are able to explore regaining our sovereignty in real time. We talk about epistemological humility as a way of navigating sense-making amidst strange phenomena like QAnan. We touch on Jordan’s ideas of the Blue Church and the Red Religion. Finally we look at the upcoming US election and how we might marshal and deploy our resources in an increasingly mad world.
Jordan has been involved in many esteemed organizations including Harvard Law School, the Aspen Institute, and the Santa Fe Institute where he served on the Board of Trustees for five years. He co-founded DivX, Game B, and Neurohacker Collective with Daniel Schmachtenberger. I would highly recommend his essays on medium and his public talks.
This is a heady conversation and so to better locate you my dear listeners, I begin by reading a section of his essay on Sovereignty that impacted me so much.
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Timestamps
:15 - Earlier life spiritual work as forming a more smoothly polished ego
:28 - The problem with epicness and liberation from the story of your life
:32 - The interview is interrupted which allows Jordan to make his point more perfectly
:45 - Epistemological humility: Q Anon and the trouble with sense making
1:01 - The Blue Church and the Red Religion
1:13 - How do we look at the problem of the upcoming election
1:19 - Is it worth having a podcast conversion while the world is burning?
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Audio Engineering by Trevor Coulter
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