Unstruck Sound: 30—What do GPS, Christianity, and traffic have in common, and what can we learn from it?
Join me for an exploration on how GPS and Christianity are related, an exercise from Tristan Gooley’s How to Read Nature, and some influence from an essay from the 90’s sparked by a presidential affair … and how that all leads to the question of what lesson have we yet to learn from traffic?
Perhaps, traffic is a paradox that won’t go away until we really accept it and face it …. because the mapping apps that were supposed to make it better haven’t really done that at all—and I’d posit that they’ve made it worst.
The book: How to Read Nature by Tristan Gooley
- https://www.workman.com/products/how-to-read-nature/
- https://theexperimentpublishing.com/2017/10/learn-how-to-read-nature-with-an-exercise-from-tristan-gooley/ — with exercise and trailer
The essay: Imperial Bedroom by Jonathan Franzen
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/12/imperial-bedroom
- https://bigthink.com/videos/jonathan-franzen-on-privacy/ — the author discussing his essay
- https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312422165/howtobealone — the book of essays including “Imperial Bedroom”
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