Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — The American Dream as a Controlled Hallucination
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson as a systems-level analysis of how consumer culture, media systems, and institutional 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, and cultural structures.
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