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What’s So Great About It? – The Dubious Value of Nostalgia – Episode 169

For the second time in the show’s history, Dara is considering the questionable value of nostalgia. While allowing that there are wellness benefits to understanding the connection between nostalgia and loss, and the stark reality of nostalgia’s relationship to ageing, there is something offensive about a particular brand of generalised nostalgia that regularly raises its unoriginal head on social media.

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Blips on the Grid – The Randomness of Human Interaction – Episode 109

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In this episode, Dara considers the randomness and unpredictability of human interaction over a lifetime. He argues that we simply never know what is going on with another person when we encounter them, even if we have had a relationship with them for years. We never know what they’re bringing to that particular moment, which means that if anything close to harmony or connection occurs, it is almost miraculous!

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Imprintable Human Clay, or The Challenge of Never Changing – Episode 62

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Dara is thinking about imprints, specifically the ones left on us in our formative years. He argues that our sense of wellness is very much connected to how successfully we negotiate or accommodate those imprints in our adult selves.

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Stepping into the Breach, or The Quandary of Heroes – Episode 51

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In this episode Dara is thrust back to his childhood by a concert of John Williams music, and specifically the music of the Star Wars films. That event, and his recent watching of Matt Reeves’s The Batman, gets him thinking about fictional heroes and what role they fulfil in our lives, and why in his late forties he is still happy to consume these heroic tales.

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Pannonia Girls

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Pannonia Girls Eyes pools of wonder, glittering intelligence, sparkling mischief. Bodies shaped by pride, confidence and interest. Dimples and grins of gaiety and penny-dropping knowing. In the wooded space they have been given leave to grow, to be wrong, to be curious. Castles and kingdoms, and queendoms, made in dollhouses. The lash, the whip and

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What’s So Great About It? – The Dubious Value of Nostalgia – Episode 169

Blips on the Grid – The Randomness of Human Interaction – Episode 109

Imprintable Human Clay, or The Challenge of Never Changing – Episode 62

Stepping into the Breach, or The Quandary of Heroes – Episode 51

Pannonia Girls

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