Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception

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  • The Body: A Guide for Occupants — Why the Body Is Not a Machine

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Bill Bryson

    This episode explores The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson as a systems-level analysis of how biological infrastructure influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    49 min
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything: Subtitle — Why Fragile Systems Produce Us

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Bill Bryson

    This episode explores A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson as a systems-level analysis of how cosmic and biological systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    49 min
  • Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity — Why Time May Not Be Fundamental

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Carlo Rovelli

    This episode explores Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli as a systems-level analysis of how quantum relational structure influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    44 min
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Why People Defend the Systems That Break Them

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Ken Kesey

    This episode explores One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as a systems-level analysis of how institutional control influences behavior, belief, and identity.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger social and bureaucratic structures.

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    38 min
  • How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe — The Building Block Illusion

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Harry Cliff

    This episode explores How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff as a systems-level analysis of how particle physics, quantum fields, and reductionist explanation influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger scientific, institutional, and cosmological structures.

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    43 min
  • Space Oddities: The System Behind Scientific Anomalies

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Harry Cliff

    This episode explores Space Oddities by Harry Cliff as a systems-level analysis of how scientific measurement systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than isolated discoveries, the episode shows why anomalies appear, why many disappear, and how frontier science connects to larger systems of evidence and interpretation.

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    52 min
  • The Golden Compass — What Happens When Innocence Becomes Control

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Philip Pullman

    This episode explores The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman as a systems-level analysis of how institutional control over knowledge influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    This episode discusses key plot outcomes from the referenced fictional work in order to analyze its underlying social, economic, and systemic themes.

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    33 min
  • The Grapes of Wrath — Why Abundance Produces Starvation

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: John Steinbeck

    This episode explores The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck as a systems-level analysis of how finance, land ownership, mechanized agriculture, and labor markets influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    This episode discusses key plot outcomes from the referenced fictional work in order to analyze its underlying social, economic, and systemic themes.

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    34 min
  • Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism — How Markets Were Encased by Law

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.


    Author: Quinn Slobodian


    This episode explores Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian as a systems-level analysis of how supranational legal architecture influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.


    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.


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    48 min
  • Climate Action — Why Global Consensus Can Block Climate Progress

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    Author: Charles Sabel and David Victor

    This episode explores Climate Action by Charles Sabel and David Victor as a systems-level analysis of how global climate governance influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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    👉 https://youtu.be/O6ngHpKHYT4

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    36 min

About Crisis in Perception

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Crisis in Perception is a long-form educational podcast examining how we misunderstand the world around us. Using books as entry points, each episode explores history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures to reveal how systems actually work—and why our perceptions so often fail. Clear, evidence-based, and non-tribal.