Crisis in Perception

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Rick Alan Ross This episode explores Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out by Rick Alan Ross as a systems-level analysis of how coercive influence systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Caitlin Doughty This episode explores Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty as a systems-level analysis of how the modern death-care system influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated fears, the episode shows why...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas This episode explores Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice and Racism Became Markers of Insanity by Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas as a systems-level analysis of how psychiatric authority and biopolitical governance influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes....

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Steven Hassan This episode explores The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan as a systems-level analysis of how psychological influence systems and media ecosystems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Stephen Kinzer This episode explores Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer as a systems-level analysis of how regime-change architecture influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mike Nelson This episode explores Stop Clutter from Stealing Your Life by Mike Nelson as a systems-level analysis of how anxiety, scarcity thinking, and emotional insecurity influence behavior, attachment, and relational outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than surface mess, the episode show...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: F. William Engdahl This episode explores Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation by F. William Engdahl as a systems-level analysis of how seed patents, agribusiness integration, and trade enforcement influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive archi...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Wallace Wright This episode explores Learn Systems Thinking: Problem Solving and Strategic Decision Making by Wallace Wright as a systems-level analysis of how hidden system structure influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or eve...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Neven Sesardić This episode explores When Reason Goes on Holiday by Neven Sesardić as a systems-level analysis of how academic reputational economies influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these sy...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Doug Smith This episode explores Big Death: Funeral Planning in the Age of Corporate Deathcare by Doug Smith as a systems-level analysis of how corporate deathcare influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode sho...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: F. William Engdahl This episode explores Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance by F. William Engdahl as a systems-level analysis of how privatized democracy promotion influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: George S. Pransky This episode explores Life is a Metaphor by George S. Pransky as a systems-level analysis of how the perceptual rendering system generates experience and shapes belief. By focusing on internal mechanisms rather than external conditions, the episode shows how this system produces stable patter...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Richard Hanania This episode explores Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy by Richard Hanania as a systems-level analysis of how concentrated interests, bureaucratic incentives, and public ignorance influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Naomi Klein This episode explores A Just Transition: Principles of a Holistic Climate Future as a systems-level analysis of how extractive economic systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture and institutional silos, the episode shows why fragmented cli...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Mary Roach This episode explores Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach as a systems-level analysis of how cadavers influence medicine, safety systems, and institutional knowledge. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems p...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims This episode explores 5 Days to a Clutter-Free House as a systems-level analysis of how cognitive limits and decision-making structures influence behavior, perception, and environmental outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual habits, the episode show...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ruby Rey This episode explores I Don't Have a Bucket List But My F ck-It List Is a Mile Long* by Ruby Rey as a systems-level analysis of how biological and behavioral systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, t...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore This episode explores Golden Gulag: Prisons and Crisis in California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore as a systems-level analysis of how carceral expansion influences belief, governance, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Zoey Arielle Poulsen This episode explores Love the Sh!t Out Of Yourself by Zoey Arielle Poulsen as a systems-level analysis of how internal cognitive systems influence behavior, belief, and perceived control. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual outcomes, the episode shows why affirmat...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Peter Atkins This episode explores Life is Short And So Is This Book by Peter Atkins as a systems-level analysis of how biological mismatch, social incentives, and attention structures influence behavior, belief, and life allocation. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personality traits or motiv...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Tara Herivel and Paul Wright This episode explores Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright as a systems-level analysis of how the prison-industrial complex influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather th...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Nita A. Farahany This episode explores The Battle for Your Brain by Nita A. Farahany as a systems-level analysis of how neurotechnology, raw neural data, and institutional surveillance influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or eve...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Zygmunt Bauman This episode explores Retrotopia: Zygmunt Bauman and the Age of Nostalgia by Zygmunt Bauman as a systems-level analysis of how the collapse of future-oriented security influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or even...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Wendy Brown This episode explores Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber by Wendy Brown as a systems-level analysis of how modern knowledge systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these s...

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. Author: Achille Mbembe This episode explores Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe as a systems-level analysis of how modern sovereignty organized through exposure to death influences behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes. By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows wh...