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Crisis in Perception
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. Crisis in Perception uses AI-assisted tools for narration and synthesis in service of long-form educational analysis.
Episodes
Crisis in PerceptionThe Cult of Trump: Mind Control and Authoritarianism — When Loyalty Replaces Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Steven Hassan This episode explores The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan…
Crisis in PerceptionOverthrow: America's Century of Regime Change — Why short-term coups create long-term blowback
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Stephen Kinzer This episode explores Overthrow: America's Century of…
Crisis in PerceptionStop Clutter from Stealing Your Life — When Possessions Become a Defense System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mike Nelson This episode explores Stop Clutter from Stealing Your Life…
Crisis in PerceptionSeeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation — The System Behind GMO Dependence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: F. William Engdahl This episode explores Seeds of Destruction: The…
Crisis in PerceptionLearn Systems Thinking: Problem Solving and Strategic Decision Making — Why Fixes Fail
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Wallace Wright This episode explores Learn Systems Thinking: Problem…
Crisis in PerceptionWhen Reason Goes on Holiday — Why Intelligence Fails Inside Ideological Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Neven Sesardić This episode explores When Reason Goes on Holiday by…
Crisis in PerceptionBig Death: Funeral Planning in the Age of Corporate Deathcare — The System Behind Mourning
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Doug Smith This episode explores Big Death: Funeral Planning in the…
Crisis in PerceptionManifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance — The Privatization of Regime Change
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: F. William Engdahl This episode explores Manifest Destiny: Democracy…
Crisis in PerceptionLife is a Metaphor — Why Reality Feels External When It Isn’t
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: George S. Pransky This episode explores Life is a Metaphor by George…
Crisis in PerceptionPublic Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy — Why strategy can be a cover story
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard Hanania This episode explores Public Choice Theory and the…
Crisis in PerceptionA Just Transition: Principles of a Holistic Climate Future — Why Climate Fixes Fail
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Naomi Klein This episode explores A Just Transition: Principles of a…
Crisis in PerceptionStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers — The System That Turns Death Into Safety Data
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mary Roach This episode explores Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human…
Crisis in Perception5 Days to a Clutter-Free House — Why More Organization Creates More Chaos
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims This episode explores 5 Days to a…
Crisis in PerceptionI Don't Have a Bucket List But My F*ck-It List Is a Mile Long — Why You Can’t Choose Happiness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ruby Rey This episode explores I Don't Have a Bucket List But My…
Crisis in PerceptionGolden Gulag: Prisons and Crisis in California — The Prison System as Economic Management
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore This episode explores Golden Gulag: Prisons and…
Crisis in PerceptionLove the Sh!t Out Of Yourself — Does Mindset Shape Reality or Mask Systems?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Zoey Arielle Poulsen This episode explores Love the Sh!t Out Of…
Crisis in PerceptionLife is Short And So Is This Book — Why busyness can hide structural failure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Peter Atkins This episode explores Life is Short And So Is This Book…
Crisis in PerceptionPrison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration — The System Behind Full Prisons
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Tara Herivel and Paul Wright This episode explores Prison Profiteers…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Battle for Your Brain: Cognitive Liberty — Who Owns Your Inner Life?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Nita A. Farahany This episode explores The Battle for Your Brain by…
Crisis in PerceptionRetrotopia: Zygmunt Bauman and the Age of Nostalgia — Why the Future Lost Its Grip
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Zygmunt Bauman This episode explores Retrotopia: Zygmunt Bauman and…
Crisis in PerceptionNihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber — Why Knowledge Can’t Tell Us How to Live
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Wendy Brown This episode explores Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max…
Crisis in PerceptionNecropolitics — The System Behind Who Must Be Exposed to Death
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Achille Mbembe This episode explores Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe…
Crisis in PerceptionMarginality, Media, and Mutations of Religious Authority in Christianity — Why Margins Gain Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Editors: Laura Feldt and Jan N. Bremmer This episode explores Marginality…
Crisis in PerceptionThe War on Choice: The Fight for Women's Rights in America — The system behind fetal personhood
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Gloria Feldt This episode explores The War on Choice: The Fight for…
Crisis in PerceptionPsychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power — Why Freedom Becomes Compulsion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Byung-Chul Han This episode explores Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and…
Crisis in PerceptionLate Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis — The anti-state state
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Alberto Toscano This episode explores Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism…
Crisis in PerceptionStatistics Simplified: Advanced Thinking Skills — What Data Hides About Reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Albert Rutherford & Abby Gordon This episode explores Statistics…
Crisis in PerceptionA Fine Mess: A Global Quest for Better Tax Systems — The hidden welfare state in the tax code
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: T. R. Reid This episode explores A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for…
Crisis in PerceptionGolden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition — Who Funds the Agenda?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Thomas Ferguson This episode explores Golden Rule: The Investment…
Crisis in PerceptionTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope — Why education can reproduce domination
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: bell hooks This episode explores Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of…
Crisis in PerceptionPsychogeography: — The City as Behavioral Algorithm
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Merlin Coverley This episode explores Psychogeography by Merlin…
Crisis in PerceptionCRISPR/Cas-Mediated Genome Editing in Plants — Why precise edits trigger old GMO rules
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Deepu Pandita and Anu Pandita This episode explores…
Crisis in PerceptionWho Owns the Future?: — What “Free” Actually Extracts From You
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jaron Lanier This episode explores Who Owns the Future? by Jaron…
Crisis in PerceptionIt’s Not You: A Guide to Healing from Narcissism — Why Empathy Becomes a Trap
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Dr. Ramani Durvasula This episode explores It’s Not You: A Guide to…
Crisis in PerceptionNarcissists: A Guide to Identifying Manipulation and Reclaiming Control — Why Empathy Feeds the System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Unknown This episode explores Narcissists: A Guide to Identifying…
Crisis in PerceptionYour Inner Fish: A Journey into Human Evolutionary History — Why Design Creates Flaws
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Neil Shubin This episode explores Your Inner Fish: A Journey into…
Crisis in PerceptionHauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past — Why More History Produces Less Future
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Merlin Coverley This episode explores Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures…
Crisis in PerceptionMemento: External Memory Systems — When certainty outlasts truth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Christopher Nolan This episode explores Memento by Christopher Nolan…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Matrix (1999) — What Happens When Reality Is Replaced by a System?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Film Case Study: The Matrix (1999) This episode analyzes The Matrix as a…
Crisis in PerceptionAnimal Farm: A Fairy Story — The system behind equal slogans and unequal power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: George Orwell This episode explores Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by…
Crisis in PerceptionNineteen Eighty-Four: Reality Control — Why hierarchy needs unreality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: George Orwell This episode explores Nineteen Eighty-Four by George…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Martian — When Survival Depends on Risk Accounting
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Andy Weir This episode explores The Martian by Andy Weir as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine — How Risk Was Hidden and Multiplied
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michael Lewis This episode explores The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday…
Crisis in PerceptionGaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War — When peace sustains the system
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Authors: Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé This episode explores Gaza in Crisis…
Crisis in PerceptionMurder Incorporated: Dreaming of Empire — When “failed” wars still serve the system
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria This episode explores Murder…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice — When Charity Becomes Moral Laundering
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Christopher Hitchens This episode explores The Missionary Position…
Crisis in PerceptionThomas Jefferson: Author of America — Why liberty required expansion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Christopher Hitchens This episode explores Thomas Jefferson: Author of…
Crisis in PerceptionStrategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places — When safety means dependence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Joel and Andrew Skousen This episode explores Strategic Relocation…
Crisis in PerceptionBehind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media — The system behind clean feeds
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sarah T. Roberts This episode explores Behind the Screen: Content…
Crisis in PerceptionCross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy — Why politics breaks faith
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jonathan Rauch This episode explores Cross Purposes: Christianity's…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 — Why success produces dissatisfaction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Jonathan Rauch This episode explores The Happiness Curve: Why Life…
Crisis in PerceptionPower: Essential Works of Foucault 1954–1984 — Why Knowledge Produces Control
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Michel Foucault This episode explores Power: Essential Works of…
Crisis in PerceptionRereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing — What Shapes “Common Sense”?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle This episode explores…
Crisis in PerceptionHigh Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing — The system behind demolition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Audrey Petty This episode explores High Rise Stories: Voices from…
Crisis in PerceptionProblem-Solving: Strategies for Critical Thinking and Decision Making — Why Familiar Solutions Fail
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Thomas Richards This episode explores Problem-Solving: Strategies for…
Crisis in PerceptionCritical Thinking Through Debate — Why the System Favors the Status Quo
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Multiple authors This episode explores Critical Thinking Through…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Prosperous Few and the Restless Many — What this actually reveals about global capitalism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Noam Chomsky This episode explores The Prosperous Few and the Restless…
Crisis in PerceptionDeep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now — The system behind long-term blindness
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Vincent Ialenti This episode explores Deep Time Reckoning: How Future…
Crisis in PerceptionEconomics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins — Why Growth Produces Breakdown
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Derek Wall This episode explores Economics After Capitalism: A Guide…
Crisis in PerceptionThinking Through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy — Why Growth Expands Harm
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Adam Briggle This episode explores Thinking Through Climate Change: A…