This episode explores Percy Bysshe Shelley’s timeless essay, “A Defence of Poetry,” written in 1821 but more urgent than ever in the digital age. Shelley argued that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world — that imagination, not industry, sustains the soul of a civilization. In an era of accelerating technology and algorithmic control, we ask: Can poetic consciousness still guide us toward wholeness, empathy, and love?