Mailbag Episode 1: Moral Witness & Collective Obedience
Oct 13, 2025•6 min•Ep. 26
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Episode description
In this first listener-driven episode, I turn the conversation inward - answering a question from Tanya W (Portland, OR) about what it means to be a moral witness in a world that often rewards unseeing obedience. We invoke Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil”, explore the tension between witnessing and complicity, and ask: how do we interrupt history’s momentum?
Join me as we reflect on conscience, attention, and the subtle art of refusing sleep in the face of cruelty.
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