Episodes

  • Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber — Media Incentives
    Feb 11 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.

    This episode explores Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz as a systems-level analysis of how media-market incentives influence political perception and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on patterns rather than individuals, the episode shows why these systems persist — even when their consequences are widely recognized.

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    26 mins
  • Marriage and Love — Institutional Marriage and Economic Dependency (Audio)
    Feb 11 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.

    This episode explores Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman as a systems-level analysis of how marriage functions as a stabilizing economic structure embedded within legal and cultural institutions.

    By focusing on incentives, constraints, and feedback loops rather than individuals, the episode shows why marriage persists as an institutional solution to economic precarity — even when its limitations are widely recognized.

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    31 mins
  • The Federalist Papers — Designing a Republic That Controls Faction
    Feb 11 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.

    This episode explores The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay as a systems-level analysis of how federal structure influences power distribution, factional management, and institutional persistence.

    By focusing on structural incentives rather than political personalities, the episode shows why constitutional systems endure — even when their consequences are widely debated.

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    40 mins
  • The Evolution of American Liberty and Constitutional Governance — Institutional Design
    Feb 11 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine thesystems shaping our world — one book at a time.

    This episode explores The Evolution of AmericanLiberty and Constitutional Governance by Richard Beeman as asystems-level analysis of how constitutional structure influences behavior,belief, and institutional outcomes.

    By focusing on patterns rather than individuals, the episodeshows why constitutional systems persist — even when their consequences arewidely recognized.

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    39 mins
  • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom — Domestication as a System
    Feb 11 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
    This episode is also available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and other major platforms.

    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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    33 mins
  • Women, Race, & Class — Intersectionality as a System of Power
    Feb 11 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    This episode explores Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis as a systems-level examination of how race, gender, and class were historically constructed to operate together, shaping labor, power, and social movements.

    Rather than focusing on individual prejudice or moral intention, the analysis traces how incentives, constraints, and feedback loops produced durable inequalities that persisted even within reform and liberation movements.

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    30 mins
  • It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle — Trauma as a System
    Feb 10 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine thesystems shaping our world.

    This episode explores It Didn’t Start with You: HowInherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle byMark Wolynn as a systems-level examination of how unresolved experiences aretransmitted across generations and shape perception, behavior, and identity.

    Rather than focusing on individual pathology or personalresponsibility, the analysis traces how incentives, silences, and feedbackloops within families produce recurring outcomes that persist even when theyare consciously rejected.

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    35 mins
  • Formerly Known as Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture — Food as Infrastructure
    Feb 10 2026

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

    This episode explores Formerly Known as Food by Kristin Lawless as a systems-level examination of how the industrial food system reshapes human biology, taste, labor, and public health outcomes.

    Rather than focusing on individual choices or personal responsibility, this analysis traces how incentives, institutional capture, and time scarcity produce health outcomes that persist even when they are widely recognized and criticized.

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    45 mins