Bonus Sample: Reimagining the Apocalypse

Apocalyptic language is everywhere: in the marketing copy of wellness influencers and pseudo-documentary makers selling spike protein detoxes and vaccine fear-mongering videos, and in the fervent anti-trans panic stoked by right-wing Substackers.  How we use language — and we use that how language to inspire actions — is everything.  Derek imagines a better use of language, and of understanding, through the lens modern secular Buddhism.  Show Notes The World-Ending Fire — Wendell Berry A Paradise Built in Hell — Rebecca Solnit After Buddhism — Stephen Batchelor Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist — Stephen Batchelor Buddhism — Alan Watts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices