Ideasicle Podcast

He's back. Dr. Bob Deutsch challenges us to consider his theory on "The Alchemy of Difference." PROGRAMMING NOTE: Dr. Bob removes a piece of paper from his microphone at about 13 minutes in and it sounds way better. So hang in there. SHOW NOTES: We live in a "world of too" - too much, too complex, too everything. The world has shifted from the world of choice ("or") to a world of "and." It's a much more complext world. Like tradition AND modernity. How can we take that seeming paradox and make it innovative? A new concept in which a person lives. We discuss this paradox as it relates to politics. A leader achieves emanence by being familiar AND mythic, accessible AND the one who knows the way. Being a leader is already a paradox. Famous people are paradoxes. Elvis - sacred and profane. Marlon Brando - tough and tender. Each of us is a "democracy of disparate voices" - we live in paradox, it's our self-narrative. Marketing makes a mistake - it tries to slice up existence so small that in that place and time i