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Flourish As You AgeAuthor: Michael C. Patterson
BRAIN HEALTH MENTAL MANAGEMENT A GOOD DEATHLet's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age! The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component. 1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health 2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing 3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections." Language: en-us Genres: Fitness, Health & Fitness, Mental Health Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#7 When People Become Disposable.
Episode 7
Friday, 13 March, 2026
Comments? Send me a text message.How do human beings come to accept dead children as collateral damage? How does an insurance company deny medical care to a sick child without moral crisis?In this episode, Michael C. Patterson draws on historian Timothy Snyder's powerful distinction between two German words for body: Leib and Körper. Leib is the living, breathing, irreplaceable human being. Körper is that same person reduced to an object, a statistic, a cost, a corpse. This episode explores how Körper logic became embedded in the systems that shape everyday life.From the invention of the arrow to the drone operator's console to the shareholder return calculation, the mechanism is the same: distance, abstraction, and the gradual erosion of our felt sense of other people's inherent worth. Our first act of resistance may be not political but perceptual. We must learn to recognize when we are objectifying people and choose, deliberately, to shift from a Körper to a Leib mindset.###As mentioned in the podcast, you might be interested in two earlier podcasts that discussed how our mind struggles to balance two different ways of processing reality. THE EMPRESS AND HER DEPUTYOUR MIND ARGUES WITH ITSELF. Support the showIf you want to support this work, click above, subscribe to the MINDRAMP Podcast, or sign up for the free Flourish As You Age newsletter for reviews of current research, reflections, updates, and special extras from my book-in-progress
