The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
Rico Verde
121 episodes
6 days ago
Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are rarer metals than gold, but the yellow metal is more recognizable to the naked eye. There has been a cultural feedback mechanism over the centuries so that we get taught that gold is valuable, therefore it is. So, it is a more obvious sign of status and conspicuous consumption. That's why we make our most significant objects, wedding rings, Olym...
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Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are rarer metals than gold, but the yellow metal is more recognizable to the naked eye. There has been a cultural feedback mechanism over the centuries so that we get taught that gold is valuable, therefore it is. So, it is a more obvious sign of status and conspicuous consumption. That's why we make our most significant objects, wedding rings, Olym...
Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 2 of 3)
The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
39 minutes
1 month ago
Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 2 of 3)
SHOW-NOTES How does individual psychological dysfunction become mass contagion? This episode explores the transformation from personal pathology to cultural crisis—examining how smart people voluntarily humiliate themselves for power, how politics has replaced religion as identity, and how projection weaponizes confusion. We trace the coarsening of American discourse, the capture of institutions by appearance over competence, and how extreme wealth literally rewires the brain to eliminate emp...
The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are rarer metals than gold, but the yellow metal is more recognizable to the naked eye. There has been a cultural feedback mechanism over the centuries so that we get taught that gold is valuable, therefore it is. So, it is a more obvious sign of status and conspicuous consumption. That's why we make our most significant objects, wedding rings, Olym...
