What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen Batchelor and Bing Song)
Futurology8 Juli 2025

What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen Batchelor and Bing Song)

Stephen Batchelor has spent decades stripping Buddhism of its dogma to find what wisdom it can offer the modern world. Could cities and countries run on karma instead of capital? In this episode, he sketches a vision of society grounded in awareness, compassion, and radical interdependence — a politics of presence rather than power. Stripped of its cosmologies, he argues, a secular Buddhism could light the way toward an ethical response to a world on fire.

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