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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 PerceptionObstacle to Peace: The US Role in Israel-Palestine — Incentive Architecture and Diplomatic Persistence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in Israel-Palestine by…
Crisis in PerceptionOutgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide — How Belief Systems Protect Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Richard Dawkins as…
Crisis in PerceptionParable of the Sower — Collapse, Adaptation & the System of Change
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler as a…
Crisis in PerceptionAtlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition — Producer Morality & Systemic Collapse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Atlas Shrugged: 35th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Rand as…
Crisis in PerceptionMental Immunity: The Science of Cognitive Immunology — Defending Reason as a System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Mental Immunity: The Science of Cognitive Immunology by…
Crisis in PerceptionGood Boundaries and Goodbyes — Relational Access and Responsibility
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa TerKeurst as a…
Crisis in PerceptionLiberalism and the Limits of Justice — The Moral Architecture of Liberal Neutrality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael J…
Crisis in PerceptionHow to Improve Your Critical Thinking and Reflective Skills — Thinking as a System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores How to Improve Your Critical Thinking and Reflective…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel — Inheritance, Memory, and Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel by Honorée…
Crisis in PerceptionEgress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism and Exit
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt…
Crisis in PerceptionChronicles: On Our Troubled Times — Inequality, Oligarchy, and Democratic Fragility
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty as a…
Crisis in PerceptionA Brief History of Equality — Wealth, Power, and Structural Inequality
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Common Good: Interviews — Neoliberalism and Corporate Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Common Good: Interviews by Noam Chomsky as a…
Crisis in PerceptionLectures on Liberation: The Philosophy of Resistance — Freedom as Structural Struggle
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Lectures on Liberation: The Philosophy of Resistance by…
Crisis in PerceptionSimple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education — Institutional Analysis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of…
Crisis in PerceptionLiving Off the Grid: A Self-Sufficient Homesteading Guide — Distributed Resilience
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Living Off the Grid: A Self-Sufficient Homesteading…
Crisis in PerceptionLiving Off-Grid — Autonomy Inside Centralized Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Living Off-Grid by Ryan Mitchell as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionA Short History of Modern Philosophy — How Modern Thought Built Authority
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to…
Crisis in PerceptionIn Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto — How Nutritionism Rewired Eating
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael…
Crisis in PerceptionFood Fortification: Evidence, Ethics, and Public Health Policy — Governance of Nutrition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Food Fortification: Evidence, Ethics, and Public Health…
Crisis in PerceptionEating Animals: A Personal Investigation — Industrial Agriculture as System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Eating Animals: A Personal Investigation by Jonathan…
Crisis in PerceptionWhen an AI Thinks About Politics: Food for Thought — Governance Integrity Under Complexity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores When an AI Thinks About Politics: Food for Thought by…
Crisis in PerceptionFood Rules: An Eater’s Manual — The Nutritional Industrial Complex
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan as a…
Crisis in PerceptionFood Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes — Industrial Diet Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee — Comedy as Reputational System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee…
Crisis in PerceptionMorning Star — System Collapse & Fragile Institutional Reconstruction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Morning Star by Pierce Brown as a systems-level analysis…
Crisis in PerceptionGolden Son — Elite Competition Inside a Closed Power Hierarchy
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Golden Son by Pierce Brown as a systems-level analysis…
Crisis in PerceptionRed Rising: The Rise of Darrow of Lykos — Engineered Caste & Elite Reproduction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Red Rising: The Rise of Darrow of Lykos by Pierce Brown…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit — Ego & Alienation
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest for Freedom of the…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Atheist Manifesto: Reason, Rights, and the Poison of Religion — Church-State Power
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Atheist Manifesto: Reason, Rights, and the Poison of…
Crisis in PerceptionAnd Yet… — Intellectual Institutions & the Politics of Conformity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores And Yet… by Christopher Hitchens as a systems-level…
Crisis in PerceptionChomsky on Mis-Education — Institutional Indoctrination System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Chomsky on Mis-Education by Noam Chomsky as a…
Crisis in PerceptionDemocracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism — Workplace Governance System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard…
Crisis in PerceptionAngela Y. Davis: Reflections on Liberation and Struggle — Carceral System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Angela Y. Davis: Reflections on Liberation and Struggle…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Conquest of Happiness — Moral Psychology as Structural Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Club of Rome: Architects of the New Dark Age — Conspiracy as Governance Narrative
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Club of Rome: Architects of the New Dark Age by John…
Crisis in PerceptionHow the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy — Banking as Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and…
Crisis in PerceptionAngela Davis: An Autobiography — The Racialized Carceral State
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis as a…
Crisis in PerceptionIf They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance — Law as Political Containment
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by…
Crisis in Perception🎧 The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Our Place on Earth — Efficiency vs Adaptivity Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Our Place on Earth by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 — Energy Systems Transition
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization…
Crisis in PerceptionBlack Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning — State Collapse and Mass Murder
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by…
Crisis in PerceptionImagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism — Nationalism as System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode examines how print-capitalism, colonial administration, and…
Crisis in PerceptionGrowing Up on Polecat Hill: An Oklahoma Story — Frontier Survival as System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode examines how rural household survival structures in early…
Crisis in PerceptionAnime and Philosophy: Exploring the Global Posthuman Journey — Systems Analysis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode examines how technological integration and cultural memory shape…
Crisis in PerceptionMoral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them — Tribal Incentives
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us…
Crisis in PerceptionPrivacy and the American Constitution — How Interpretation Generates New Rights
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Privacy and the American Constitution: New Rights…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You’re Supposed to Be — Systems Analysis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society — Legislative Incentives
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Fierce Urgency of Now by Julian E. Zelizer as a…
Crisis in PerceptionSupergods: The History and Magic of the Superhero — Myth as Cultural Infrastructure
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Supergods: The History and Magic of the Superhero by…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Sneetches and Other Stories — Symbolic Hierarchy as System Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss as a…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade — Systems Analysis
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode analyzes The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins as a structural…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Trial of Henry Kissinger — Geopolitical Power & Legal Immunity
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Trial of Henry Kissinger by…
Crisis in PerceptionWhat Is to Be Done?: A Novel — Incentive Design and Revolutionary Architecture
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores What Is to Be Done?: A Novel by…
Crisis in PerceptionA Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life — Evolutionary Mismatch
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the…
Crisis in PerceptionMark Twain: A Life — Literary Celebrity as Industrial-Era System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers as…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Jungle: Slaughter and Socialist Awakening — Industrial Incentive Design
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Jungle: Slaughter and Socialist…
Crisis in PerceptionFail-Safe: A Novel of Nuclear War — Automation and Mutually Assured Destruction
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Fail-Safe: A Novel of Nuclear War…
Crisis in PerceptionThe Enemy: Bin Laden and the War Against Totalitarianism — Systems of Ideological Persistence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores The Enemy: Bin Laden and the War…
Crisis in PerceptionCaught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind — Institutional Faith & Role Persistence
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time. This episode explores Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving…