Crisis in Perception

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

Author: Richard Slotkin

This episode explores A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin as a systems-level analysis of how national myth influences behavior, belief, political identity, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these myths persist — and how they connect to larger economic, racial, media, military, and ecological systems.

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

Author: David Quammen

This episode explores Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen as a systems-level analysis of how ecological disruption and zoonotic spillover 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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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Author: Brian Klaas

This episode explores The Despot’s Apprentice by Brian Klaas as a systems-level analysis of how democratic norms, media ecosystems, and institutional incentives influence political behavior and public perception.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or partisan conflict, the episode shows how democratic erosion can emerge gradually through the breakdown of shared reality, institutional trust, and voluntary restraint.

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Author: Scientific American

This episode explores the coronavirus material from the June 2020 edition of Scientific American as a systems-level analysis of how ecological encroachment, healthcare economics, and political incentives influence pandemic outcomes.

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

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Author: Alan Watts

This episode explores In My Own Way by Alan Watts as a systems-level analysis of how language, abstraction, and institutional structures influence perception, identity, and behavior.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated experiences, the episode examines how modern systems reinforce the sensation of separation between self and world — and why these structures persist across economics, religion, media, and industrial society.

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Author: Alan Watts

This episode explores Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion by Alan Watts as a systems-level analysis of how recursive identity systems influence behavior, belief, and psychological outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than spiritual doctrine alone, the episode shows why ego structures persist — and how they connect to larger cultural, technological, and institutional systems of self-management.

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Author: Daniel Susskind

This episode explores Growth: A History and a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind as a systems-level analysis of how economic growth, GDP, technological incentives, and political tradeoffs influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than slogans about growth or degrowth, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, environmental, technological, and democratic structures.

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Author: Carl Sagan

This episode explores The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan as a systems-level analysis of how evolutionary brain structures influence behavior, hierarchy, culture, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on neurological incentive architecture rather than isolated personalities or events, the episode shows why tribalism, bureaucracy, irrationality, and long-term planning coexist within the same species — and how these tensions connect to larger technological and cultural systems.

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Author: Scientific American Contributors

This episode explores this 2024 Scientific American collection on reproductive rights as a systems-level analysis of how legal systems, healthcare infrastructure, and surveillance technologies influence institutional behavior and medical outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than partisan conflict, the episode examines why these systems persist — and how biological governance increasingly intersects with surveillance capitalism, healthcare inequality, and institutional risk management.

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

Author: Brian Klaas

This episode explores Fluke by Brian Klaas as a systems-level analysis of how randomness, complexity, and institutional optimization influence behavior, belief, and systemic fragility.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than isolated events or personalities, the episode examines why highly interconnected societies become vulnerable to invisible pivots, nonlinear outcomes, and cascading instability.

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