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S3E3 Does Everybody Hurt: World Pain
On the cusp of Lent, with a culture and a world sparring with itself like an uncoordinated kung fu film, Matt and Dan cheerfully wander into very heavy territory: world pain. (Yes, that escalated quickly).
Is world pain just regular pain with a global subscription? Or is it something else entirely, like a low-grade ache in the bones of the world, humming beneath the headlines, moving through us the way qi moves through a body, impossible to localise and hard to ignore?
Along the way, Matt and Dan poke at some of our default assumptions about pain, especially the modern instinct to bottle it…
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