Composting Modernity: Unlearning the Stories That Are Unraveling Our World with Raj Chawla and Andrew Kutt

What if the crisis we’re facing isn’t something to be solved, but something to be composted?

Raj Chawla and Andrew Kutt joined me for a conversation that asks us to slow down long enough to feel what’s actually happening beneath the surface of our world, our systems, and ourselves. What Raj illuminates so beautifully is that the assumptions driving our global unraveling: separation, domination, the compulsion to control, aren’t just “out there” in our institutions and economies. They live in our nervous systems. They live in us.

This is not a comfortable conversation. It’s not meant to be.

What does it mean to truly unlearn something that has been passed down through generations of conditioning?

What do we lose when we let go of control, and what becomes possible when we do?

And what does any of this have to do with how we educate young people in a time of collapse?

Raj doesn’t offer answers. He offers something rarer: a slowing down, a bearing witness, an invitation to compost what modernity has accumulated in us so that something new might emerge in the clearing.

This is one of those episodes that will sit with you long after you’ve finished listening.

Thanks Raj and Andrew for a great conversation!

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