The Good Apocalypse Podcast
Host Alex Evans explores with fascinating people how to navigate these turbulent times we are living in and emerge with a brighter future ahead. Some may want to stoke division and play on our rage, but at the Good Apocalypse Podcast we want to explore how we can steady ourselves, find purpose and meaning and build connection with others instead.
Formerly the Larger Us Podcast.
The Good Apocalypse Podcast
How to put our societies back together again - with Jon Yates
Jon Yates is the author of "Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how to put them back together again". He's uniquely well placed to explore these issues, having both served as a government adviser and co-founded a series of charities that are designed to bring people together.
For years, our societies have been becoming more disconnected, so that most of us spend less and less time with people who are different - whether in terms of age, race, class, earning power, or education.
In "Fractured", Jon Yates argues that the more time we spend with people unlike ourselves, the more understanding and tolerant we become. We now need to forge a new "Common Life": a set of shared practices and institutions that can strengthen the glue that bonds our societies, in all their diversity.