{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Honest Path","title":"on Living a Fully Rooted Life","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3664,"description":"Episode Guide:THE FOUR QUARTERS:1. Naming our Current Reality (the water we swim in)2. The High Price of Uprootedness3. Reimagining The Good Life4. Actionable Shifts to Get StartedFirst Quarter — Naming the Water We Swim InThe Cultural Catechism We ExperienceBig Idea: Before we can live differently, we must recognize the invisible assumptions shaping our lives.Modern America quietly catechizes us:- Independence is the highest virtue- Maximize income.- Move upward (geographically and socially).- Consume as identity.- Work hard now, live later (retirement as reward).- Autonomy equals freedom.“Every age has its own outlook. It is especially good at seeing certain truths and especially liable to make certain mistakes. We all therefore need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period.... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books....The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds and this can only be done by reading old books.”- C.S. Lewis“Tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary record... Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom [butler]; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.”- G. K. ChestertonSecond Quarter — The High Price of DisembodimentWhat We Lost Along the WayBig Idea: Mobility, wealth, and autonomy have brought prosperity — but also...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0-iTCIytQEYlYB9VGmt2tMFZGYvh70L-G7jhXPVbmEA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNzhl/YTcyOTMxNjNlMGM5/Y2Y2ZTc3Zjc3MWYw/OWVmMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}