Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception

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Crisis in Perception episodes

  • The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger — Inequality, Status Stress, and Social Breakdown

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

    This episode explores The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett as a systems-level analysis of how inequality-driven hierarchy influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

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

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    34 min
  • The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression — Structural Violence & Market Design

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

    This episode explores The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph as a systems-level analysis of how market design influences behavior, inequality, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why structural violence persists — and how economic systems connect to larger political, cultural, and ecological structures.

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    34 min
  • No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need — Shock Politics as a System

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

    This episode explores No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein as a systems-level analysis of how shock politics influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why crisis exploitation persists — and how it connects to larger economic, political, and media structures.

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    19 min
  • Bad Paper: Chasing Debt From Wall Street to the Underworld — The Debt Collection Pipeline

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

    This episode explores Bad Paper: Chasing Debt From Wall Street to the Underworld by Jake Halpern as a systems-level analysis of how secondary debt 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, legal, and cultural structures.

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    41 min
  • Energy and Civilization: A History of Power and Progress — The Energy System Beneath Modern Life

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

    This episode explores Energy and Civilization: A History of Power and Progress by Vaclav Smil as a systems-level analysis of how energy density influences economic growth, institutional scale, and environmental transformation.

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

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    20 min
  • How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future — The Industrial Energy System

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

    This episode explores How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil as a systems-level analysis of how the industrial-energy system influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why fossil-dependent material systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, geopolitical, and ecological structures.

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    44 min
  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — The Anthropocene extinction system

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode explores The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert as a systems-level analysis of how the Anthropocene extinction system 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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    39 min
  • How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide — Extractivism and Climate Injustice

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

    This episode explores How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other by Naomi Klein as a systems-level analysis of how extractive economics 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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    52 min
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — The compliance shortcut system

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

    This episode explores Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD as a systems-level analysis of how compliance cues 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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    57 min
  • The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — The Structure of Fanaticism

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

    This episode explores The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer as a systems-level analysis of how mass movements transform personal frustration into organized collective identity.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than ideology alone, the episode shows why movements persist across contexts — and how they connect to larger political, economic, and media systems.

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    36 min

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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.