Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

WHY SOCIETY KEEPS BREAKING

25 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Josh Trent and another speaker discuss why society and individuals experience large "pendulum swings," using the MeToo movement as an example. The other speaker frames these swings as rooted in human attraction to polarity, pain, and pleasure and suggests extremes help define the center (the "eye of the hurricane").

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Look what happened with the MeToo movement. It started actually really pure, where it's like, hey, there's a Hollywood mogul who's pretty much an asshole, and he's abusing people sexually. We need to fight against that. We need to stand up for that. But then the pendulum swung so hard the other way. Whether it's you as a soul or us as a society, it feels like these pendulum swings are massive. What is it about that you believe our human evolution that makes us have these huge pendulum swings? As a soul and as a society.
We love polarity, we love pain, we love pleasure. We need pain in order to know pleasure. So we. We need to lose ourself in order to find ourself. We're probably the eye of the hurricane, the calm stillness in the middle. But knowing some of the extremes helps us know who we are.