1.8 The Good Life and Its Discontents: What are we trying to accomplish?

Amid the endless churning of outrage and mutual recriminations we often find ourselves drifting further and further from the underlying rationale or purpose that motivated our engagement with the political discourse in the first place. We tend to be motivated by some notion of the good life and justice but yet increasingly devote little time to investigating these perennial questions. To help us dig into to such matters Dr. Gene Healy drops into The Caves of Altamira to impart his wisdom born of decades practicing oriental medicine along with teaching yoga and meditation. Dr. Healy also draws upon his extensive study of theology and Buddhist thought more specifically in providing a framework for understanding the perils of modern life at the level of both the individual and society.