Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 4: Academic Gibberish vs. Life on Earth
Academic constructs, valid or otherwise, tend to diffuse into our culture at large. How has this impacted social and political conflict? Quite a lot, and mostly badly. In this episode, we look at clim...
18 Sep 20201h 50min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 3: Foucault Ruins Your Meeting
In this episode, we trace the journey of 20th century social sciences through innumerable versions of the nature vs. nurture debate, talk about how the denial of human nature led scientists to torture...
27 Aug 20201h 45min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 2: The Universal People
Because anthropology describes the observed range of human variation, as well as constants in human life, it is inextricably linked to the project of describing what is possible for a revolution to ac...
11 Aug 20201h 43min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 1: Margaret Mead Goes to Samoa
What kind of societies are ultimately possible (i.e. within the range of variation our biology allows)? Why are social movements so prone to division and self-annihilation? These questions may seem un...
28 Jul 20201h 51min
The Wilderness of Mirrors
A CIA counterintelligence chief once described his world as a wilderness of mirrors. In this episode, we ask how ecological and egalitarian movements can navigate this wilderness. The internet is open...
15 Jul 20201h 25min
Genocidal Mystics
We've looked at some of the psychological traits that correlate with ideology, but what about those that don't? Considering the tendency for systems of power to behave the same regardless of their ove...
2 Jul 202056min
The Psychology and Politics of Collapse: Interview with Ken Ward
Having described innate psychological tendencies associated with other political perspectives, in this interview we examine what makes an environmentalist. Ken Ward describes his path through professi...
21 Jun 20201h 36min
It Isn't Nonviolent To Let People Hurt You
Having described the right-left spectrum in psychological terms, we will now examine the psychology of the liberal, an entity sometimes described as moderately left who has no real counterpart on the ...
13 Jun 20201h 23min
