#51: What We Sang in the Mountains to Greet the Gentle Rain pt. 2 (preview)
(05/22/2022) The story of the epochal changes of the 2020s, told in 2050, continues. This episode tells the story of west coast forests in the 2020s and the three preceding decades, and the institutio...
23 Mai 20223min
Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 1
The year is 2250, and the participation of humanity in the global ecosystem is shaped by a council of scientists contemplating, with considerable reverence and humility, the various paths before us. H...
9 Mai 20221h 40min
What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 2
We discuss the many determinants of hierarchy and equality, and many other aspects of social form, in the cross-cultural record over time. We examine patrilocal residence and gender inequality, scarci...
9 Apr 202248min
What We Sang in the Mountains to Greet the Gentle Rain pt. 1 (preview)
In 2050, weary beyond reckoning but not quite dead, Arnold recounts the crises of the 2020s and the revolutionary changes they gave birth to: the synthetic biology and modular technology that allowed ...
8 Apr 20223min
What Is Left Authoritarianism?
In this episode, we examine the relationship between psychological variation, social role differentiation, and power, presenting a tripartite scheme of Strongmen, Technocrats, and Narcissists: societi...
31 Mar 20222h 12min
What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 1
It's easy enough to use exquisitely rarefied, niche terminology to talk about politics, but do we even have a foundation of shared definitions for the really common terms, like left and right, or mar...
23 Mar 20221h 14min
Return to the Circle
If last episode described how we become trapped in a suicidally destructive feedback loop between biology and technology, this one is devoted to escape. Again examining societies and their politics in...
17 Mar 20221h 37min
Philosophy or Schizophrenia?
Why is the world looking more and more like the paranoid delusions of 19th century mental patients? Why do political systems of disparate ideologies converge on the same nightmarish outcomes, always a...
25 Feb 20222h 4min
