Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception

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  • How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life — Why Abundance Still Produces Scarcity

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores How Much Is Enough? by Robert and Edward Skidelsky as a systems-level analysis of how growth-centered capitalism 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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    45 min
  • Requiem for the American Dream: 10 Principles of Concentrated Power — How Inequality Is Engineered

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores Requiem for the American Dream: 10 Principles of Concentrated Power by Noam Chomsky as a systems-level analysis of how concentrated wealth and political power 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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    47 min
  • Resurrecting Pompeii: The Bioarchaeology of a Lost Population — Who Rewrote the Dead?

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores Resurrecting Pompeii: The Bioarchaeology of a Lost Population by Estelle Lazer as a systems-level analysis of how archaeological interpretation, tourism incentives, and narrative mythmaking 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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    35 min
  • Retrain Your Brain: CBT in 7 Weeks — Why Your Mind Reinforces Its Own Distortions

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores Retrain Your Brain: CBT in 7 Weeks by Seth J. Gillihan as a systems-level analysis of how cognitive-behavioral loops influence perception, emotional regulation, and behavioral outcomes.
    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual experience alone, the episode shows why these patterns persist — and how they connect to broader biological and psychological systems.

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    43 min
  • Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street — How TV Engineered Learning

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis as a systems-level analysis of how television-based cognitive conditioning 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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    26 min
  • The Family: Fundamentalism and the Architecture of American Power — Invisible Power

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores The Family: Fundamentalism and the Architecture of American Power by Jeff Sharlet as a systems-level analysis of how elite fundamentalist networks 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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    46 min
  • Empire of Cotton: A Global History — How Violence Built Industrial Capitalism

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert as a systems-level analysis of how the global cotton empire 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
  • What the Dog Saw — Why Smart Systems Fail When They Misread Reality

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell as a systems-level analysis of how institutional design and misinterpreted complexity influence behavior, belief, and 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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    51 min
  • Total Liberation: Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement — When Ecology Becomes a Threat

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores Total Liberation: Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement by David Naguib Pellow as a systems-level analysis of how hierarchical socioecological power 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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    30 min
  • Policing America’s Empire: The Rise of the Surveillance State — How Colonial Policing Came Home

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

    This episode explores Policing America’s Empire: The Rise of the Surveillance State by Alfred W. McCoy as a systems-level analysis of how colonial surveillance 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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    43 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.