Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We're exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maintain their sense of humor while escaping fatalism and finding meaningful ways to avoid collapse.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:<ul><li>Wikipedia article on China’s <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango_cult'>Mango Cult</a></li><li>France’s <a href='https://www.history.com/news/mysterious-illnesses-mass-hysteria'>Dancing Plague of 1518</a></li><li>Geoffrey Cohen, <a href='https://www.geoffreylcohen.com/book'>Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides</a>, W. W. Norton, 2022</li><li><a href='https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996'>Asch line experiment</a></li><li><a href='https://www.apa.org/pi/health-equity/bystander-intervention'>Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet</a></li><li>Summary of Marvin Harris’s work on <a href='https://anthropology.ua.edu/theory/cultural-materialism/'>cultural materialism</a></li><li><a href='https://neurosciencenews.com/asch-social-conformity-modern-25290/'>Research that extends Asch’s conformity experiments</a> and highlights the personality trait of openness as a key to resisting the behavior of conforming.</li><li><a href='https://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test'>Big Five Personality Assessment</a></li><li><a href='https://belonging.berkeley.edu/'>Othering and Belonging Institute</a> at the University of California, Berkeley</li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/">Support the show</a>

Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We're exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maintain their sense of humor while escaping fatalism and finding meaningful ways to avoid collapse. Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language. Sources/Links/Notes:Wikipedia article on China’s Mango CultFrance’s Dancing Plague of 1518Geoffrey Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, W. W. Norton, 2022Asch line experimentBystander Intervention Tip SheetSummary of Marvin Harris’s work on cultural materialismResearch that extends Asch’s conformity experiments and highlights the personality trait of openness as a key to resisting the behavior of conforming.Big Five Personality AssessmentOthering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, BerkeleySupport the show

Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We're exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maintain their sense of humor while escaping fatalism and finding meaningful ways to avoid collapse.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:<ul><li>Wikipedia article on China’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango_cult" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mango Cult</a></li><li>France’s <a href="https://www.history.com/news/mysterious-illnesses-mass-hysteria" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dancing Plague of 1518</a></li><li>Geoffrey Cohen, <a href="https://www.geoffreylcohen.com/book" rel="noopener noreferrer">Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides</a>, W. W. Norton, 2022</li><li><a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996" rel="noopener noreferrer">Asch line experiment</a></li><li><a href="https://www.apa.org/pi/health-equity/bystander-intervention" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet</a></li><li>Summary of Marvin Harris’s work on <a href="https://anthropology.ua.edu/theory/cultural-materialism/" rel="noopener noreferrer">cultural materialism</a></li><li><a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/asch-social-conformity-modern-25290/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Research that extends Asch’s conformity experiments</a> and highlights the personality trait of openness as a key to resisting the behavior of conforming.</li><li><a href="https://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test" rel="noopener noreferrer">Big Five Personality Assessment</a></li><li><a href="https://belonging.berkeley.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Othering and Belonging Institute</a> at the University of California, Berkeley</li></ul><a href="https://www.postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town

With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts:Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another. Rob Dietz - Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.” Jason Bradford - Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes. These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling? Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.

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With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts: Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another. Rob Dietz - Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.” Jason Bradford - Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes. These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling? Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.

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