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 Mars 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
Prison and Other Stories (excerpt)
Arnold's father, George, comes to visit, and tells stories of hanging out with a revolutionary pachuco poet, covering himself in tattoos at age eleven, breaking out of jail on multiple occasions, grow...
22 Feb 20223min
Life Is Holy War pt. 2: Asymmetries of Aggression
We continue our mashup of political psychology, the biology of aggression, and left-right brain hemisphere differences, in the latter case guided by Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary: The...
10 Feb 20221h 32min
Life Is Holy War pt. 1: Two Stories about a Mountain
In this, the most wild journey we have undertaken thus far, we examine the notion that reality consists of a tension between opposites reflected at any given level of analysis, from the big bang to th...
31 Jan 202243min
The Life and Death of Radical Environmentalism
As grief and terror about the ecological crisis intensifies, it seems increasingly curious that for many years a radical environmental movement—based on a deep sense of connection with, and rage on be...
25 Jan 20221h 59min
Destroying the World Destroyers
Because it couldn't possibly be more clear that existing political systems are committed to behaviors that will cause our extinction, one has to ask: can we just sabotage the fossil fuel economy out o...
27 Dec 20211h 29min
Ethnogenesis pt. 4: Becoming a People in Terra Incognita
In this episode, we conclude our broad sweep of human history, venturing fearlessly into the truly tangled wilderness of variables mediating the relationship between technology and hierarchy. We criti...
20 Dec 20213h 6min
