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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 PerceptionContact!: A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival — Security Systems After Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival by…
Crisis in PerceptionFuture Crimes — How Hyperconnectivity Scales Crime and Surveillance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Future Crimes by Marc Goodman as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Book of Hope — Why Hope Sustains Human Cooperation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by…
Crisis in PerceptionNineteen Eighty-Four — How Totalitarian Systems Colonize Perception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Lion and the Unicorn — Orwell on National Identity, Class, and Patriotism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — and Why — Disaster Psychology
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionWindswept: The Story of Wind and Weather — Global Winds and the Hidden Climate System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather by Marq de…
Crisis in PerceptionHomelessness Is a Housing Problem — Housing Markets and Structural Scarcity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Homelessness Is a Housing Problem by Gregg Colburn and…
Crisis in PerceptionMilitant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite — Legitimacy Crisis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Militant Normals by Kurt Schlichter as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Great Derangement — When Politics Becomes Competing Realities
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionOvershoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change — Ecological Limits and Civilization
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Pandemics Hit the Poor Hardest — The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus by Troy Tassier…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Deepening Crisis — Governance Challenges After Neoliberalism
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after…
Crisis in PerceptionRecapturing Democracy — How Neoliberal Urban Systems Reshape Cities
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Recapturing Democracy by Mark Purcell as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionApplications of Deep Learning in Genomics — When Biology Becomes a Data System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Applications of Deep Learning in Genomics by Bipin Kumar…
Crisis in PerceptionThe New Digital Age — How Global Connectivity Is Rewiring Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Case for Universal Basic Services — Rethinking Welfare Through Shared Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Case for Universal Basic Services by Anna Coote and…
Crisis in PerceptionYour Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills — How the Brain Misleads Us
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Skeptics’ Guide to the Future — Why Futurists Keep Getting the Future Wrong
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future by Dr. Steven Novella…
Crisis in PerceptionFast Food Nation — The Industrial System Behind the All-American Meal
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionRise of the Zombie Bugs — Evolution’s Mind-Control Parasites
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Rise of the Zombie Bugs by Mindy Weisberger as a…
Crisis in PerceptionReframing Poverty: New Thinking on Humanity’s Greatest Challenge — Why Poverty Persists
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Reframing Poverty: New Thinking on Humanity’s Greatest…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Hype Machine — How Social Media Algorithms Shape Public Perception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hype Machine by Sinan Aral as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe — The System Behind Belief
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Circle of Reason — Reason, Classification, and the Illusion of Certainty
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionStatus Anxiety: Causes and Solutions — Why Success Can Increase Social Anxiety
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Status Anxiety: Causes and Solutions by Alain de Botton…
Crisis in PerceptionBonk — How Sexual Knowledge Gets Filtered by Institutions
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary…
Crisis in PerceptionPoverty, by America — Why Wealth Doesn’t Eliminate Poverty
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond as a…
Crisis in PerceptionPrison Land — Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal…
Crisis in PerceptionCinema of/for the Anthropocene — How Film Shapes Ecological Perception
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect and Ecology by…
Crisis in PerceptionSocial Capitalism: The End of Neo-Liberalism and Where We Go Next — Narratives that police reality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Social Capitalism: The End of Neo-Liberalism and Where…
Crisis in PerceptionIn the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West — Market Rationality vs Democracy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty — Why Anti-Poverty Systems Persist
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty: The…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis — Colonial Extraction and Ecological Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Privatization of Everything: The Plunder of Public Goods — How Public Goods Become Profit
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Privatization of Everything: The Plunder of Public…
Crisis in PerceptionAn Oklahoma Story: Growing Up on Polecat Hill — Memory as a Rural Survival System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores An Oklahoma Story: Growing Up on Polecat Hill by Ruby…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality — The Legal Engine of Capital
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America — Designed Segregation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our…
Crisis in PerceptionMerchants of Doubt — How Uncertainty Is Manufactured to Delay Action
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway…
Crisis in PerceptionDoughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist — Beyond GDP Growth
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a…
Crisis in PerceptionMass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power — Housing as State-Building
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power by…
Crisis in PerceptionSunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing — Housing as Asset Class
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing by Andrew…
Crisis in PerceptionLove Is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One Everyday Miracles — The Emotional Care System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Love Is the Best Medicine: What Two Dogs Taught One…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains — The Attention Economy System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains…
Crisis in PerceptionSissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story — How Gender Norms Produce Conformity and Harm
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Undercover Economist Strikes Back — Macroeconomics as a Managed System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Undercover Economist Strikes Back by Tim Harford as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty — Power in Balance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of…
Crisis in PerceptionMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans — System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington as a…
Crisis in PerceptionWhy Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — Institutions, Incentives, Inequality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Medium is the Massage — Media Environments & the Global Village
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and…
Crisis in PerceptionSocialism: Utopian and Scientific — How Materialist Analysis Replaces Ideal Plans
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Power Elite — Corporate, Military & Political Convergence as System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionNostalgia Marketing: Consumer Behavior and Advertising Effectiveness — Memory, Identity, Brand Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Nostalgia Marketing: Consumer Behavior and Advertising…
Crisis in PerceptionIn the Beginning… Was the Command Line — Interface Systems & Digital Mediation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores In the Beginning… Was the Command Line by Neal…
Crisis in PerceptionVagina: A New Biography — How Taboo Systems Shape Agency
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionExtra Lives: Why Video Games Matter — Interactive Systems & Cultural Legitimacy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSuperclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making — The Access Economy of Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry — Diagnosing Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness…
Crisis in PerceptionOn Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal — Fossil Autopilot and Justice
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores On Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein as…
Crisis in PerceptionDoppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World — Branding, Doubles, Conspiracy Markets
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi…