This past Friday I interviewed Jason Silva and Max Lugavere, two 27-year-old producers and co-hosts of Current TV, the Emmy-award-winning cable network started by Al Gore in 2005 that has since become the fastest growing network in TV history. Picked out of hundreds of applicants, Silva and Lugavere have become the faces of the network, [...]
Evolving the YouTube Generation
July 11th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · EnlightenNext, Gen Y, Pop Culture
Tags:current tv·Gen Y·jason silva·max lugavere·media·still up
Are You a Narcissist?
July 6th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Culture, Gen Y, Postmodernism
I recently interviewed San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge about her new book, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. The book is quite an achievement and deserves all of the attention it’s been getting from Newsweek and other media outlets. Bringing together an overwhelming amount of evidence from recent [...]
Tags:baby boomers·gen x·Gen Y·Jean Twenge·narcissism·psychology·The Narcissism Epidemic
Why We Need to Compare Ourselves to Others
June 19th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 2 Comments · Culture, Gen Y, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
This past weekend, I watched Kobe Bryant win his fourth National Basketball Association title as his team, the Los Angeles Lakers, defeated their opponent, the Orlando Magic, four games to one in a best of seven series. While the victory was definitely a team effort, Bryant, who was voted MVP of the play-offs, stood out [...]
Tags:Basketball·Jean Twenge·Kobe Bryant·Los Angeles Lakers·narcissism·National Basketball Association·NBA·The Narcissism Epidemic
I Can’t Live Without It
June 17th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Andrew Cohen, Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment
On this past Friday’s Howie Rose Show (Burlington, VT), we hosted classical flutist, jazz musician, and senior student of Andrew Cohen’s teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment Rodrigo Tarraza to speak about meditation and why he can’t live without it. Specifically, we wanted to know about the relationship between meditation and creativity.
What he had to say was [...]
Tags:creativity·depth·hierarchy·jazz·meditation·music·spiritual teachers·spirituality
It’s So Hard to Be Goode
June 11th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· No Comments · Uncategorized
This past Wednesday evening, I could hardly believe my eyes when I watched the season premier of The Goode Family, a new animated sitcom on ABC by Mike Judge (along with John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky). The show, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of an environmentally-responsible, culturally-sensitive middle class American family, was absolutely hilarious. [...]
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Out of the Swamp Radio Show (6/05/09): The Kosmocentric Perspective
June 6th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Evolutionary Enlightenment
On this past Friday’s Howie Rose Show on Burlington, Vermont’s community radio station, The Radiator, EnlightenNext’s Diane Bensel and Joel Pitney spoke with their hosts about why it’s important to have a cosmology and described what the kosmocentric perspective on reality is.
Tags:Burlington·cosmology·discovery cycle·EnlightenNext·Kosmocentric·radio·The Howie Rose Show
Mother Knows Best
March 4th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Pop Culture, Uncategorized
In our last appearance on the Howie Rose Show, we described our experience of growing up as grandchildren of the sixties (that is, children of children of the sixties) and started to call into question the values that were birthed during this cultural explosion in light of the desire for something even more (dare I [...]
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Everything’s Amazing; Nobody’s Happy
February 24th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Comedy, Culture, Gen Y, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
A friend sent me a link to this incredibly funny, insightful, and implicating video clip of stand-up comedian Louis CK appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien giving some examples of the extraordinary irony of our time: everything’s amazing and yet no one is happy. Check it out!!
Tags:Conan O'Brien·Gen Y·Louis CK
Evolving Beyond Neo-Hippie Consciousness
February 19th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · EnlightenNext
Boulder, Berkeley, Burlington, Portland, the West Village, Asheville, Santa Cruz, Seattle, Eugene. For any self-respecting grandchild of the 60s, growing up in America as a “neo-hippie” during the final decades of the twentieth century and first decade of the next, these postmodern Xanadus are as magnetic as Paris might have been to an 18th-century revolutionary [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Burlington·Consciousness·Culture·EnlightenNext·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Integral·Postmodern
