Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
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This episode explores The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz as a systems-level examination of how social domestication becomes internal enforcement — shaping belief, identity, and emotional regulation through self-talk, interpretation, and feedback loops.

Rather than focusing on individual morality or personal solutions, this analysis traces how incentives, constraints, and self-policing mechanisms produce stable outcomes even when the experience is widely criticized or privately resisted.

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