Episode 67: We are More Than What We Produce with Philip Eastman
“Art needs time to incubate.”
-Philip Eastman, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Phillip Eastman. Philip is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and passionate anti-capitalist. He is a believer that much of the mental health struggles and maladies of American life are rooted in the rugged individualism and cutthroat ideologies of neo-liberalism of patriarchal power structures. From extensive personal experience with mental health struggles--and his own winding path to forgiveness-- he writes and creates from a perspective to undo the shame that so many of us carry in the struggle to survive. In this episode, Madison and Philip speak on the divide between capitalism and creativity, the effects of living in a system built on shame, reconciling supremacy and our history, and so much more...
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In this episode, we talk about:
What is “late stage capitalism?”
Why art needs time to incubate
Reclaiming creativity for your own nourishment
The cost of living in a system that teaches blame and shame and healing through self-forgiveness
How we reconcile the history of an economy rooted in supremacy culture and slave labor with wanting to thrive now
The stressors of entrepreneurship, including the hustle of performing, producing and being seen as a product - Madison’s personal experience
The importance of connecting to an ecology, a story larger than ourselves
Learning to feel our grief and be in our humanness
Having conversations about climate change, capitalism and privilege in an approachable way that builds bridges
