What if paradise gave us everything we needed… except a reason to be needed?
On this episode of “Infinitely Curious”, Katerina Batzaki enters Universe 25, John B. Calhoun’s famous 1968 mouse experiment: a protected world with abundant food, water and shelter that flourished — and then mysteriously collapsed.
But this is not a story predicting humanity’s future. It is a provocative starting point for a bigger question: Is comfort enough for a meaningful life?
Through Calhoun’s experiment and the voices of George, a young Syrian rebuilding his sense of belonging in Paris; Eileen Ellsworth, exploring why giving connects us; and Michael Canfield, reflecting on acceptance when life refuses to be perfect, Infinitely Curious asks what humans may need beyond abundance: belonging, purpose, contribution — and one another.
Because perhaps the perfect society isn’t one where nobody needs anything.
Perhaps it’s one where everybody matters to someone.
Produced and presented by Katerina Batzaki
Sound editing: Nikos Savorginakis