Comments on: Our Better Angel: Chris Adrian http://www.radioopensource.org/our-better-angel-chris-adrian/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: enkerli http://www.radioopensource.org/our-better-angel-chris-adrian/#comment-92902 enkerli Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:09:19 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1827#comment-92902 There's something interesting about literary physicians and humanistic/humanist medical doctors in general. Thinking mostly about Martin Winckler, who did such inspiring work for the Arte Radio podcast. But also about a British medical school figure calling for a humanistic curriculum or even Open Source interviewee Atul Gawande. They help make Comaroff's recent point about a well-rounded perspective, probably because well-roundedness characterizes Chris's perspective so well. On the financial crisis being potentially bad for book sales but good for books, it's quite close to the perspective of businesspeople like Jason Calacanis who talk about innovation in downmarkets. These also correspond to what I personally perceive as a shift to happiness and humour. "Spleen is a bourgeois sport." While it wasn't explored at great length, the point about the "US curse of hyper-potential" (US citizens trained to believe anything is possible) resonates quite well with Barry Schwartz's Paradox of Choice and other studies of happiness in a neo-liberal world. At least, these connections are speaking to me. For further connections, we could even grab Boris Cyrulnik (to focus on anglo-friendly sources),,, There’s something interesting about literary physicians and humanistic/humanist medical doctors in general. Thinking mostly about Martin Winckler, who did such inspiring work for the Arte Radio podcast. But also about a British medical school figure calling for a humanistic curriculum or even Open Source interviewee Atul Gawande. They help make Comaroff’s recent point about a well-rounded perspective, probably because well-roundedness characterizes Chris’s perspective so well.

On the financial crisis being potentially bad for book sales but good for books, it’s quite close to the perspective of businesspeople like Jason Calacanis who talk about innovation in downmarkets. These also correspond to what I personally perceive as a shift to happiness and humour. “Spleen is a bourgeois sport.”

While it wasn’t explored at great length, the point about the “US curse of hyper-potential” (US citizens trained to believe anything is possible) resonates quite well with Barry Schwartz’s Paradox of Choice and other studies of happiness in a neo-liberal world. At least, these connections are speaking to me. For further connections, we could even grab Boris Cyrulnik (to focus on anglo-friendly sources),,,

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