{"podcast":{"title":"Living Myth","slug":"living-myth-721505","podcast_index_feed_id":721505,"rss_url":"https://livingmyth.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://livingmyth.libsyn.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/b/6/7/ab6757499a3d375927a2322813b393ee/2024_Logo_3.jpg","author":"Michael Meade","episode_count":58,"summary":"Mosaic presents Living Myth, a podcast with Michael Meade, renowned mythologist and storyteller. Meade presents mythic stories that offer uniquely insightful and wise ways of understanding the current dilemmas of the world we live in. Living Myth proposes that genuine solutions to the complex and intractable problems of our world require both transcendent imagination and cohering, transformative narratives.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 472 - Moments of Truth","slug":"episode-472-moments-of-truth","published_at":"2026-01-28T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505/episode-472-moments-of-truth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505","url":"https://livingmyth.libsyn.com/episode-472-moments-of-truth","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/livingmyth/Episode_472_-_Moments_of_Truth.mp3?dest-id=441422","summary":"This episode begins with the recent shooting in Minneapolis in which an intensive care nurse named Alex Pretti was shot ten times by ICE and border patrol agents. There are fateful occasions when a tragic event becomes a moment of truth for both individual life and the collective meaning and core values of a culture. Michael Meade suggests that: \"We are now, and may be for some time, in a collective tragedy that involves a battle for truth and meaning, but also the need for a transformation of culture that is aimed not only at the need for political change, but also at a transformation of the quality of human life at this time.\" Meade turns back to Plato's Republic, one of the foundational works of Western philosophy, that explores the meaning of justice and the struggle between \"lies of the soul\" and the need to \"live in truth.\" Because the current administration is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It must falsify the past by trying to rewrite history. It must falsify the present by telling people not to believe their own eyes and it must seek to falsify the future by blatantly denying the truth and avoiding accountability. In the end, it comes down to the people, as \"living the lie\" must be confronted with living in truth. The point becomes not only the exposure of all the false poses and hollow pretenses that living in lies requires; but also the ancient and immediate revelation that it is not only possible, but truly essential that people who seek freedom and human dignity find ways to live within truth when faced with an administration of lies. Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can further support this podcast by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium . Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full arc…","meta_description":"This episode begins with the recent shooting in Minneapolis in which an intensive care nurse named Alex Pretti was shot ten times by ICE and border patrol…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1644,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/living-myth-721505/episodes/episode-472-moments-of-truth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505/episode-472-moments-of-truth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}