Jacques and Jennifer discuss some ideas from Rutger Bregman's new book: Moral ambition: Stop wasting your talent and start making a difference.

Two themes of interest are: (1) the social and communal nature of making meaningful change: it is not done by lone 'stars' but by people working collectively over time, and (2) the processes of making change are important, not just the end goal or outcome i.e. the 'relational' processes and how we treat each other along the way.

Jennifer and Jacques challenge Bregman's under-rating of the importance of 'awareness raising' for creating change. They think it is more important than ever, given the dominant narratives that hide the truth about pervading injustice, inequality and oppression, not to mention rightwing saturation of social media with conspiracy theories and misinformation.

References

Rutger Bregman (2025) Moral ambition: Stop wasting your talent and start making a difference, Bloomsbury Publishing.

David Graeber (2018) Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work and What we can do about it.…Penguin Books

Rutger Bregmans' panel and speech at the 2019 WEF Davos gathering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LtFnmPruU

Carole Cadwalladr, the journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data breach scandal being interviewed on Jon Stewart's Daily Show: #DailyShow #JonStewart #CaroleCadwalladr

3CR (inaugural) program on relationality: www.3cr.org.au/thinkagain/relationality-our-modus-vivendi