When is aggression a sign of weakness?
Michael Macaluso
Michael Macaluso is a certified Holistic Health Counselor who specializes in holistic nutrition, emotional eating, and food allergy consulting. Michael uses the lens of food and…
Roger Berkowitz
Roger Berkowitz is a remarkable interdisciplinary scholar, teacher, and writer whose interests stretch from Greek and German philosophy to legal history and from the history of…
Dechen Tsering
Dechen Tsering is an active member of the Tibetan Association of Northern California. She was born in exile in Nepal where her father was the Dalai Lama's representative. Raised…
Guests: Michael Macaluso, Roger Berkowitz and Dechen Tsering
Swiftboating. Obama vs Hillary. Bush vs Gore. China vs Tibet. My company vs yours. My dad can beat up your dad. Egypt v 49 gay men. Hey bitch.
Our culture is chock full of aggression. When is it actually a sign of weakness? In recognizing aggression as weakness, can we develop an effective response?
Guests: Tibetan Rights activist Dechen Tsering, holistic nutritionist Michael Macaluso, philosophy of law scholar Roger Berkowitz and you.
I look forward to conversating with you.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Listen to my recent conversation with Percy Schmeiser. He’s a 77 year-old farmer from Saskatchewan who inspiringly stood his ground against Monsanto. He recently won a court case against them holding them responsible for the contamination cause by their GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). This was Percy’s response to Monsanto’s very aggressive law suit against him and other farmers.
Monsanto’s aggressive legal actions are a natural consequence of their business strategy to create and own forms of life. They sued farmers whose crops had had the Monsanto GMO seeds blow into them.
Percy is quite inspiring. You can hear the many aggressive tactics taken against him yet he held his ground.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
As I was listening to this, I couldn’t help but be reminded of an article I had read this afternoon. The article is about aggression in other primates and what we can learn from their successes at peacemongering. Check it out at http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/04/12/peace-among-primates-part-2
April 16th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
If you missed the conversation, you can listen to it here: http://subvertvideo.com/heathergoldshow/audio/aggression_full_audio.mp3