Episode 47 - Jay Griffiths - Why Rebel

“The truth of it seems to me that it’s not that the more than human world is something which some people have a particular affinity for and other people don’t, we all do. It’s something from childhood. Children adore animals, they dream of animals so often. Their sense of curiosity and comfort is often from animals. Their companions are very often from the more than human world. I think, in a sense that maybe that’s part of the clue to why so many people lose it, is because it’s treated as if it’s something that we grow out of. As if we move from that, living beautiful, welling-up word, of zest, of spirit, of vitality, as if we move out of that, into this concrete enclosed world and that is what growing up is about and that is what this so called real world is about.”

Jay Griffiths is a courageous and award winning writer and author. Her writing feels crucially important to these times we are living in.

Along with her books including, Why Rebel, Wild: An Elemental Journey and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, she also writes for The Guardian, The Idler and Orion Magazine. Jay is a fierce advocate for wild places, the landscapes we belong to and our relationship to the more than human world.

Listen to Dan and Jay explore her new book - Why Rebel, which she reads from in this podcast, as they discuss:

- Early threads of interest in a writer’s life

- Awakening to what we all know

- Why Rebel. Letter to an Endling

- From silence to speech

- Non violent protests evolving culture

- Extinction Rebellion. Knowledge, understanding, devotion, service and disciplined fury

- The danger of lies and the importance of truth

- Integration of the ancient and the modern

- Children carrying the burden of responsibility

- Indigenous philosophy; Seven Generations and Who Speaks for Wolf

- Recognising english history and the celtic connection to land

- Land knowledge rather than land ownership

- Insects and tears

- Stupidity and genocidal capitalism

- It’s not about speaking better. But speaking differently

- The wonder and life beneath our feet. Not on Mars

- Court statement that brought judge to tears

Community and Links

People:

Nick Hayes (Author, The Book of Trespass)

Guy Shrubsole ( Author, Who owns England)

Projects/Books:

Extinction Rebellion - https://extinctionrebellion.uk

Why Rebel - http://jaygriffiths.com/books/why-rebel/

Places:

Wales

Ireland

Cornwall

England

West Papua

Bristol (Enslaver, Edward Colston)

Connect:

Jay Griffiths - http://jaygriffiths.com

Buy Why Rebel

http://jaygriffiths.com/books/why-rebel/

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Play out track:

The Waves - Waterboys

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-waterboys/541457

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