18 July 2025

Episode 6.05 - Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting

This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Child question? And on which form of suffering do I plant my flag of resistance? Dostoevsky and Langston Hughes both offer clues.



* The complete reading of Dostoevsky's "Rebellion" in The Brothers Karamazov: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17z89hjeEz1Rl_hcx4jUdkQi1M0jzbwv2/view?usp=drive_link 

* Langston Hughes: "Let America Be America Again" - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again



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Reading Ahead, Journey 6:



* Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas": https://archive.org/download/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-k-leguin/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas%20-%20Ursula%20K%20LeGuin.pdf



Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/



CHAPTERS



00:00      Our Suffering Child

02:19      Opening Theme

02:52      And Yet We Know, Too

09:47      A Plethora of Principles

15:35      A Different Hideous Bargain

23:38      Rebellion, Revolution, Reconciliation

28:03      Reading: Langston Hughes "Let America Be America Again"

33:09      Closing Words

34:45      Closing Theme and Credits



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Transcript:  https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-6-05-negotiating-for-space-compromise-and-flag-planting



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