Crisis in Perception

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.

  1. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age — Market Structure as Governance

    2 HR AGO

    The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age — Market Structure as Governance

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu as a systems-level analysis of how market structure influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why concentrated systems persist — and how they connect to larger political, cultural, labor, and information structures. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/MZn16TciEhs ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/curse-of-bigness-151748159?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    21 min
  2. Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive — Biology’s Unfinished Definition

    3 HR AGO

    Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive — Biology’s Unfinished Definition

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer as a systems-level analysis of how scientific definitions shape biological understanding and institutional decision-making. By focusing on classification architecture rather than isolated curiosities, the episode shows why these frameworks persist — and how they connect to medicine, ethics, artificial life research, and the search for extraterrestrial organisms. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/Hgi0rLT3tSQ ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/lifes-edge-for-151745679?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    36 min
  3. Why Save the Bankers? And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis — Patrimonial Capitalism

    4 HR AGO

    Why Save the Bankers? And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis — Patrimonial Capitalism

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Why Save the Bankers? And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis by Thomas Piketty as a systems-level analysis of how wealth concentration persists through the structural relationship between capital returns, taxation regimes, and central banking architecture. By focusing on incentive design rather than individual actors, the episode shows why inequality deepens following crises — and how financial stabilization often reinforces asset ownership hierarchies. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtube.com/@crisisinperception ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-save-bankers-151743046?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    35 min
  4. Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World — The Growth Imperative as Ecological Design

    4 HR AGO

    Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World — The Growth Imperative as Ecological Design

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel as a systems-level analysis of how growth dependence drives ecological breakdown through enforced expansion across markets, finance, labor, and state legitimacy. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated environmental crises, the episode shows why these patterns persist — and how they connect to global supply chains, measurement regimes, and cultural narratives that normalize extraction. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/5noj-6EecSk ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/less-is-more-how-151739285?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    53 min
  5. The Deficit Myth — Modern Monetary Theory and the Architecture of “Affordability”

    5 HR AGO

    The Deficit Myth — Modern Monetary Theory and the Architecture of “Affordability”

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton as a systems-level analysis of how monetary sovereignty and fiscal narratives influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these stories persist — and how they connect to larger economic structures, labor markets, inequality, and real-resource constraints. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/u4hWAYSBVAo ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/deficit-myth-and-151737869?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    25 min
  6. The Hidden History of the War on Voting — Electoral Design and Institutional Power

    6 HR AGO

    The Hidden History of the War on Voting — Electoral Design and Institutional Power

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores The Hidden History of the War on Voting by Thom Hartmann as a systems-level analysis of how electoral governance design influences representation, institutional incentives, and political outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these structures persist — and how they connect to larger economic, racial, judicial, and political systems. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/KmZMLd_i4yo ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/hidden-history-151735468?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    31 min
  7. Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World — Domestic Labor as System Design

    6 HR AGO

    Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World — Domestic Labor as System Design

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World by Eve Rodsky as a systems-level analysis of how domestic labor distribution and productivity ideology influence identity, behavior, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual exhaustion, the episode shows why these patterns persist — and how they connect to broader economic and cultural systems that define value. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/yd-SV5yMyKc ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/find-your-space-151734446?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    29 min
  8. Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe — The Politics of Airborne Disease

    7 HR AGO

    Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe — The Politics of Airborne Disease

    Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer as a systems-level analysis of how airborne science, institutional incentives, and public health architecture influence belief and policy. By focusing on incentive design rather than personalities or crisis moments, the episode shows why recognition of airborne transmission has repeatedly lagged — and how this blind spot connects to military research, infrastructure design, and atmospheric science. 📺 Watch on YouTube:👉 https://youtu.be/dRjSvhMnEPU ❤️ Support on Patreon:👉 https://www.patreon.com/posts/air-borne-hidden-151730735?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Author Support If these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible. Call to Action If you value systems-level analysis like this, please like, subscribe, and comment with books or topics you’d like us to explore next. AI Use Disclosure This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.

    24 min
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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.

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