Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception

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  • Nuclear Power — The Energy System That Requires 100,000 Years of Stability

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

    Author: Dirk Eidemüller

    This episode explores Nuclear Power by Dirk Eidemüller as a systems-level analysis of how nuclear infrastructure influences institutional behavior, geopolitical power, and long-term ecological risk.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or surface politics, the episode examines why nuclear systems persist despite catastrophic failure risks, unresolved waste storage problems, and deep interconnections with military infrastructure and state power.

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    41 min
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth — The Hidden Engine Beneath Civilization

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

    Author: David Whitehouse

    This episode explores Journey to the Centre of the Earth by David Whitehouse as a systems-level analysis of how the Earth’s hidden interior shapes planetary stability, magnetic shielding, tectonic recycling, and the conditions necessary for life.

    By focusing on deep structural systems rather than isolated geological events, the episode examines why these planetary processes persist — and how invisible thermodynamic systems connect surface civilization to larger cosmic and environmental structures.

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    👉 https://youtu.be/d02lXU-BH1U

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    50 min
  • Who Gets What — And Why — The Hidden Engineering Behind “Free” Markets

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

    Author: Alvin E. Roth

    This episode explores Who Gets What — And Why by Alvin E. Roth as a systems-level analysis of how matching systems influence opportunity, institutional behavior, and economic coordination.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why matching systems persist — and how timing, information flow, and hidden algorithmic structures shape access to schools, jobs, organ transplants, and other life-changing opportunities.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • The End of the Aztecs — How Chance Breaks Empires

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

    Author: Charles L. Mee Jr.

    This episode explores The End of the Aztecs by Charles L. Mee Jr. as a systems-level analysis of how imperial fragility, chance, disease, and alliance incentives 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, biological, and cultural structures.

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    1 hr
  • To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment — When Democracies Lose Shared Reality

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

    Author: Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz

    This episode explores To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz as a systems-level analysis of how constitutional mechanisms depend on institutional trust, shared facts, and democratic legitimacy.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why impeachment becomes increasingly unstable inside polarized information environments — and how those dynamics connect to larger political, media, and institutional systems.

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    35 min
  • The Pentagon Papers — When Credibility Matters More Than Reality

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

    Author: Daniel Ellsberg

    This episode explores The Pentagon Papers as a systems-level analysis of how executive secrecy, geopolitical credibility, and bureaucratic insulation influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes during the Vietnam War.

    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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    36 min
  • The System: Democracy, Oligarchy, and the Political Construction of Markets

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

    Author: Robert B. Reich

    This episode explores The System by Robert B. Reich as a structural analysis of how economic power transforms into political power — and how political power subsequently reshapes the economy in return.

    The discussion examines lobbying, shareholder capitalism, deregulation, financial bailouts, and the erosion of countervailing institutions to explain how modern markets become systems of rule construction rather than neutral arenas of competition.

    Rather than framing inequality as an inevitable outcome of globalization or technology, the episode investigates the deeper institutional architecture shaping incentives, outcomes, and public perception.

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    https://youtu.be/afyoQLQK0hg

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    45 min
  • Escaping the Housing Trap — Why Affordable Housing Threatens the System

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

    Author: Charles Marohn and Daniel Herriges

    This episode explores Escaping the Housing Trap by Charles Marohn and Daniel Herriges as a systems-level analysis of how housing markets became structurally tied to financial growth, municipal stability, and institutional incentives.

    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
  • Futures of Socialism — Why Elections Fail to Change Economic Power

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

    Author: Grace Blakeley

    This episode explores Futures of Socialism by Grace Blakeley as a systems-level analysis of how financial dependency, platform capitalism, global supply chains, and asset ownership influence political behavior, institutional persistence, and democratic possibility.

    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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    37 min
  • The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology — The System Behind Apocalypse

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

    Author: Ted Toadvine

    This episode explores The Memory of the World by Ted Toadvine as a systems-level analysis of how technological society interprets ecological collapse, deep time, and planetary uncertainty.

    By focusing on incentive architecture rather than surface environmental narratives, the episode examines why systems of prediction and management persist — and how they connect to larger economic, technological, and institutional structures.

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    27 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.