Radical Compassion: Amanda Palmer | Rich Roll Podcast

[@kathyzeiler2010]

We need more extreme compassion! Thank you Amanda for the inspiration to love more.

[@doreesky]

I hope that I will always remain teachable. Actions always speak louder than words. I still struggle with asking for help. Thanks for sharing your gifts of plenty. I'm a cancer survivor and was and still am grateful for helpers...

[@mattyb808]

One of the best podcasts I’ve ever seen. 💯

[@amyyoder768]

Two of my favorite people!!!

[@artshaman7677]

What a delight to find you both in one spot. Rich, I thought a lot about you today as I was running my trail, with ex-smokers lungs, freshly released from my habit! Catra Corbet is also to thank! Amanda, you are like a spirit guide and older/younger sister who has direct transmission availability to the stuff Neil says we are hiding behind our trees. We're coming out from behind the trees. Guys like you, and us, can and will change the world if we reach a critical mass. Take your B vitamins folks...its a wild and dangerous ride through the darkness, but daylight always arises from the end of the night tunnel. Peace and ultimate love. Ignore the mud...we're panning for gold. Transmission end... 😂😇😍😘XXXX (thank god for Grammarly btw.)

[@free2muse]

Amazing podcast. Absolutely love this one. This is my first Amanda Palmer experience. I can't wait to buy her book and watch the Ted Talk. Great job as always Rich.

[@valentinshauger5524]

Isn't she wonderful?? Punk cabaret is true freedom.

[@reecerobinson9518]

Good job Blake and Margo.. production quality is through the roof on this one!!

[@ricebowl3]

so glad rich still podding i listen to all first five years

[@DD-iy4nk]

The setting for this conversation is incredible, great job to the film crew and of course to rich for the wonderful, impactful conversation ✌🏼

[@donjagoe]

Rich, you consistently introduce me to these incredible, fascinating people I have somehow missed and brother, that’s truly a gift given and gratefully received. Just listened to In My Mind and completely blown away. Thanks yet again.

[@artshaman7677]

Awesome isn't she!

[@conoracutt]

Check out her podcast on Tim Ferriss. She gets incredibly deep. Also his episode with her husband Neil Gaiman.

[@mowatmusic]

AMAZING interview. Thank you Rich!

[@artfanatsymanic]

I want to give another perspective on the cult of rugged individualism. I think it grew out of a tendency of old-world cultural family units being not only interdependent, but co-dependent. It is the escape of people who are not benefitting from belonging to said culture or family unit, where their boundaries are not understood or respected, or where they hold no economic or social power. This rebellion has become tradition itself and its context has been forgotten, not allowing for the application of balance or recalibration to that ethos.

[@cynthiastokes5591]

Nice calm couple love the vibes

[@kathleenkulp240]

I've always thought that empathy and compassion are much more about the person expressing them...my expression of empathy is really my attempt to relate, understand, maybe even feel...that human-ness that is the thread that unites us all. It is NOT endorsement or support for it.... its the recognition that there IS a connection between us ALL

[@HexproofAnarchist]

Anyone else think it's creepy that family guy essentially predicted the Boston marathon bombing?

[@sophieszobonya3175]

Yeah, this radical compassion have been bothering me for some time now, especially since I began to doubt the existence of evil. I've been thinking of the rapists, the murderers, the narcissists and toxic parents. Why, and what was in their head - and anyone who I mentioned this thought with just freaked out. Really, when do humans start to lose the right to be treated like humans?

[@foljs5858]

Never. Humans are more than their actions. They are even more than their intentions.

[@sophieszobonya3175]

@@foljs5858 that's where I settled too. I wish more people would think this way, even though it's hard

[@SumetraSound]

Reading this has been one of the highlights of my day. Thank you for both for showing up. Radically.

[@ronja4567]

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh I never expected to hear a link to nightvale on the rich roll podcast aaaaaaah

[@kckazcoll1]

great guest, love AFP! Just wondering what was the beeping sound in the background?

[@yvonnetanja1980]

Interdependence 🌹

[@kentnoble8434]

This guy is so pretentious and precious. The world is not the way he sees it.

[@Conversations970]

Radical Compassion??..........Then how Amanda could people hurt your feelings by giving their opinion? You "appeared" as if you sided with the terrorist just because he was hiding in a boat. Your community felt compassion for the people holding their dead bloody loved ones, or parents, spouses receiving phone calls that their loved one would NEVER return....EVER!!!!! Rather than being "hurt" by your fan base, wouldn't radical compassion immediately snapped in to understanding where your "people" were coming from?.........Compassion? A real community or real fans holds "one" accountable. In the path of ever evolving, one, at times might say "shit, I see that I fucked up on the timing". .........Rather than, "it hurt my feelings because.......". JUST a thought.

[@josoveys649]

Nobody like that

[@themindfulstrings]

Understanding where people are coming from doesn’t take away the very human experience of pain while being misunderstood. Also, not everyone unanimously assumed that Amanda “sided” with the terrorist. I believe a very important door of thought was open while offering empathy to someone that misguided and in that much pain to hurt so many people. We as humanity will not shift towards peace unless we are able to embrace and take responsibility for those in this world who are misguided and in pain - who have been shaped by trauma. We can hold them responsible, absolutely. But we must hold ourselves responsible as well, as a society. I don’t think Amanda lost radical compassion while having hurt feelings. She is just honest. And feelings alone don’t change who you are and what you believe.

[@Conversations970]

100% agree that as a society we need to have empathy with responsibility....true empathy. Point still being........"timing" is everything in the comments/blogs that are written. Amanda's community was bringing that to her attention. I think it's beautiful. That is how we grow. Not by justifying, but by listening and taking in others perspectives.

[@janefreeman995]

Lost me on the DT comment. Absolutely nothing compelling for me. Rugged individualist? Really? My guess is aligning with disturbing rhetoric. I have considered a ho'opono approach for misguided thinking. We are all created equal and nothing else is remotely possible.

[@bc6798]

You are 100% right. She is a complete poser, distracting people with a quirky exterior both aesthetically and musically. Plus her writing is shit

[@evelynbaron2004]

Shout out to Art Shaman below for mentioning Neil Gaiman, the sort of subject of my comment. I've ordered Amanda's book, it's bound to be brilliant, what can I say. Sam Harris's wife -- I am writing this way because of the way the interview went -- was brilliant and vibrant on the subject of identity, consciousness and beyond and it was great that the great Sam Harris and she flirted on-camera ,,,,,,, what's her name?????? I'm not being politically correct, just that Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman are perceived as 2 planets that are synchronized in an eternal dance, while in the former interview there was a lot of self-deprecation going on, or Sam Harris's satellite just likes to say really really profound things and then giggle. Harris, not really my favorite person because I think with reason, as an academic, that he hi-jinked the early research and funding at what I now know to be Johns Hopkin where the Mindfulness program was originally adapted from Eastern practices to help patients dealing with chronic physical pain eventually morphed into adaptations used to treat people with anxiety etc. ; I just wish people would cite their sources and be up front about things. I have no regard for Jordan Peterson and painfully watched a conversation with Harris where Bible Studies were in the forefront and at no time did Harris call this guy out on anything he said -- my therapy is swimming and I was in the Blue for a good hour after that assault on my consciousness. So, Rich Roll, what could Neil Gaiman possibly have to say to you on a podcast????? Come on, Gen X, Sandman, American Gods … think, man!!!

[@jimspencer9628]

19 isnt a kid

[@themindfulstrings]

Jim Spencer of course it is. How many people do you know who are fully wise and understanding adults before 30? Everyone is just figuring it out. The majority of humans are children well into their ripe age. The brain isn’t even done forming until you’re in your 20s. It doesn’t exclude fatal violent actions. But it also doesn’t exclude the ability to empathize.

[@jimspencer9628]

Most of my friends had there own business n good jobs early i had my own business at 20 so yes they should be you treat them like kids n they will be kids 18 you can drink vote drive n join the arm its the parents fault when they are allowed to still be kids

[@srzent0]

Frontal lobe doesn't finish developing until you're 24 so I'd say at 19 in many ways you are still a kid. Also depends where you grew up, what kind of family you have, etc.

[@jimspencer9628]

You teat them like kids the will be kids i had a business at 20 n ran it very well each there own but i will never baby n helicopter mine you have to teach them everything and that is to adult to or you are just picking up the bits for the rest of there life

[@leafm1181]

a lot of style but no substance.

[@richardhall5489]

Did you get to see Amanda Palmers show live? Some style but... mostly subtance.