Episode 53 - What Absolute Truths are Negotiable?

Hello listeners, and welcome to another episode of This Most Unbelievable Life, the podcast where we talk about our universe as we navigate it, ourselves, our approach, and our place in it as people trying to be the best we can be, doing the best we can! One of the things that we have both noticed for a while is that some of these ideas, notions, or conventions that we sometimes don't even question... are actually very questionable. 

Want some examples? 

Are you already working for the weekend? Well, what so bad about the actual week anyway that we're rushing to get through it? 

Were you just bemoaning that Mondays are the worst?  And is there a way to make Monday more acceptable? 

Do you repeat: “life is hard” to emphasize what a chore it is to live our lives?  Have you asked: is it really? Is that how you would characterize your life, as a chore? What other choice do you have? 

Operating in a way that questions some of these widely stated, if not widely accepted ways of being, is somewhat countercultural. If our ideas about Monday and the weekend are culturally constructed, then resisting them leans against the momentum of the social norm, right?

How does one arrive at a countercultural position, especially when, so often, we might not even know that what we think, say, or do, is rooted in a cultural agreement or convention? Do we have to go through the work of identifying every nuance of our culture to come to a new way of being that might serve us better, or can we stumble across it by accident? In this podcast, we talk this through to see if we can get some clarity on this question. What does our culture ask of us, that we don't readily notice, that might not be serving us well? Of course, then the big question... what can we do about it? 

Also, we test the cultural convention that it's not a good idea to play rock, paper, scissors on a podcast! Find out who the winner is in this episode!

P + C

Related Episodes

If you’d like to explore this topic a little more with some previous episodes, please check out the following:

Episode 9: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Episode 21: Who Makes These Rules Anyway?

Episode 31: Why Are You Like This?

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