Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception

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  • 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
  • A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel — The South Sea Bubble and Financial Power

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

    This episode explores A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel by David Liss as a systems-level analysis of how early modern finance, reputation economies, and enforcement structures influenced 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
  • The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care — System Design

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

    This episode explores The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid as a systems-level analysis of how institutional health care design influences cost, equity, and public health performance.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than partisan framing, the episode shows why different systems produce different outcomes — and how those systems connect to broader economic and political structures.

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    45 min
  • The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System — Managed Confidence

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

    This episode explores The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System by James Rickards as a systems-level analysis of how a managed confidence regime 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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    35 min
  • Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization — Hydraulic Power Systems

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

    This episode explores Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon as a systems-level analysis of how water control influences political authority, economic growth, and geopolitical stability.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than isolated historical events, the episode shows why hydraulic systems persist — and how they connect to broader agricultural, industrial, and global trade networks.

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    37 min
  • Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail — Debt, Power & Imperial Cycles

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

    This episode explores Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio as a systems-level analysis of how long-term debt cycles, reserve currency status, and wealth inequality influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

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

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    38 min
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Empathy as Institutional Measurement

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

    This episode explores Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick as a systems-level analysis of how institutionalized empathy measurement and technological mediation of emotion influence behavior, belief, and moral categorization.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than characters or plot events, the episode shows why this system persists — and how it connects to broader structures of bureaucratic authority, commodity signaling, and mediated identity.

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    25 min
  • Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator — Attention as Currency

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

    This episode explores Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday as a systems-level analysis of how engagement-based media economics influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated scandals, the episode shows why misinformation and outrage persist — and how they connect to broader advertising, platform, and political systems.

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    31 min
  • The Common Good — Trust, Inequality, and Democratic Legitimacy

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

    This episode explores The Common Good by Robert B. Reich as a systems-level analysis of how civic trust and institutional legitimacy influence behavior, belief, and democratic stability.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual scandals, the episode shows why low trust persists — and how inequality, selective enforcement, and fractured shared reality connect to larger political and economic systems.

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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.