To feel each other's pain (Episode 7: "Thinking Will, Thinking With")

This is episode 7 of “Thinking Will,” but it is also the first part of a new series called “Thinking With.” Here, I think with Gregory Hicks about this question: how can we get to a place where we feel sadness each time another person is hurt (regardless of that person’s race, class, or cultural background)? Obviously, if we are asking this question then we are currently living in a time when this doesn’t happen. In the recent wake caused by the failure to hold Breonna Taylor’s killers accountable for their actions, the pain of our current reality is palpable and raw. Greg and I think through this reality together and work toward a list of activities that people can try to help us arrive at a place of greater empathy and caring.

LISTEN TO OTHER EPISODES OF “THINKING WILL”

EPISODE 1

(The Pharmakon of Conspiracy Theories)

EPISODE 2

(Death onstage - death in life)

EPISODE 3

(The Performativity of Plants)

EPISODE 4

(Art and Trauma)

EPISODE 5

(Conversing with Others)

EPISODE 6

(The Problem with Problems)

EPISODE 8

(Thinking With: Gloria Imseih Petrelli, “Devising Possible Futures”)

EPISODE 9

(Thinking With: Nico Swenson, “What An Individual Isn’t”)