Dr. Tia Jolie and Sarah Tirri kick off this episode of Soul Decodes with a real life story that quickly pivots from a messy domestic issue to profound philosophical territory. Sarah recounts the chaos that erupted when raccoons (or something suspicious) ransacked her garbage cans, spreading 400 pages of an old manuscript, Styrofoam, and food scraps all over her driveway. While tidying up the mess (and getting a good hamstring workout!), a man in a truck pulled up—a raccoon catcher, complete with a caged raccoon. This suspicious timing immediately raised a red flag for Sarah and her husband: was this an example of the Hegelian Dialectic operating at a hyper-local level? The women explore the unsettling idea that some entrepreneurs (or politicians and governments) intentionally create the problem to sell the soluti ...