Conversation #30: Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel (February 4, 2018)

This week: we didn’t get a walk in, unfortunately. Paul is struggling to finish a fat science fiction novel by David Brin, and he hurt his leg in a dumb mail-retrieval accident. We revisit a topic from last week, the marriage of Josh and Lolly Weed, and talk a bit about the six kinds of love in classic Greek terminology. Then we talk about a classic episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Darmok,” that is all about the stories we tell each other and how we use these stories to communicate. We take this idea and use it to consider what the news media is doing when it shares, without critical context or push-back, the anti-immigrant language of Trump supporters.

How to Listen

You can find the MP3 file here.

The Podcast feed is here.

The Podcast channel on YouTube is here.

More Information

The Sojourners article called “Have You Tried the Six Varieties of Love?” is here.

You can find a very detailed article from The Atlantic about the “Darmok,” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation here.

This Week’s Music

This week’s music clips are from Paul’s original song, I.O.U.. There’s also a video.