#50 Sex, Uncertainty & Becoming Uncivilized with Chris Ryan

A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

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#50 Sex, Uncertainty & Becoming Uncivilized with Chris Ryan

Anya Kaats

Apr 25, 2020

Chris Ryan is the bestselling author of Sex at Dawn & Civilized to Death. He also hosts a podcast called Tangentially Speaking. We talk about everything from President Clinton's infamous blowjob to male vulnerability to the importance of embracing uncertainty and heartbreak in one's life to the myth of "progress" and the (eventual? hopeful? inevitable?) downfall of civilization as we know it.

Find out more about Chris at ThatChrisRyan.com and on Instagram and Twitter.

Chris' Book Recommendations: A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright, Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse and The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera

Songs featured: "Talyat" by Tinariwen and "Pacing the Cage" by Bruce Cockburn

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Discussion about this podcast

A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

I started this podcast because I was tired of being stereotyped as lazy, triggered and entitled. I wanted to give voice to a different kind of millennial and invite us to write a new story - one of a generation willing to challenge the status quo, embrace nuance and paradox, and reject PC-culture. This podcast isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions. How can we reinvent ourselves and the narratives we’ve been expected to inherit? How can we take ownership over the ways we participate in our own suffering? How can we move beyond victimization and into empowerment? How can we fix ourselves to fix the world? It’s time for new dreams, new stories and new futures…

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