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Crisis in Perception

Crisis in Perception
Donald Trump
Capitalism
Surveillance Capitalism
Google
Christian Nationalism
Chris Hedges
Chatgpt
Donald J. Trump
Electoral College
Race In America
Constitution
Watergate
Japan
Neoliberalism
Gerrymandering
Vietnam War
United States Health Care
Slavoj Žižek
Richard Nixon
Diamonds

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 syn... more

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What if much of our anxiety about eating is shaped not simply by nutritional evidence, but by a culture that turns food into a test of health, morality, and personal responsibility?

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What if America's growing economic divide is partly a story about who has the resources to influence government long after election day?

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The internet can be open to everyone and still impose a much higher price on some people for speaking.

This episode presents AI-narrated educational analysis based on published sources. The voices are synthetic and do not represent real conversation... more

What if the central question of justice is not how much freedom or equality a society promises, but how its institutions determine who can actually exercise them?

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Recent Guests

David C. Korten
Economist and author of Change the Story, Change the Future
Author, Speaker
Episode: Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth — When Money Defines Wealth
Danny Caine
Author of How to Protect Bookstores and Why
Episode: How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling — Community Infrastructure
April Ajoy
Author of Star-Spangled Jesus, Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith
Episode: Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith — Faith, Nation & Power
Gilda R. Daniels
Legal scholar and former civil rights attorney at the Department of Justice
Episode: Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States — How Voting Rules Preserve Power
David Houle
Author and futurist discussed as the deep-dive guest
Episode: The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance — Why Everything Feels Like It's Changing at Once
Matt Ridley
Author of The Origins of Virtue
Author
Episode: The Origins of Virtue: Why Cooperation Evolves — The Hidden System of Trust
Nick Lane
Biochemist, author of the theory discussed
Episode: The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? — Why Complex Life Happened Once
Mark Purcell
Author of Recapturing Democracy (academic/author)
Episode: Recapturing Democracy — How Neoliberal Urban Systems Reshape Cities
Steven Novella
Neurologist and scientific skeptic referenced as the primary source material for the discussion
Episode: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills — How the Brain Misleads Us

Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars from 55 ratings
  • AI slop 😔

    So disrespectful to the authors referenced (and in many cases antithetical to their politics)

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Please college first year
    United States5 months ago
  • Banter seems so fake!

    Although I like the ideas, the fake sounding banter and interjections between the hosts is almost intolerable. As such, there seems to be very little actual ‘thinking’ going on here. The whole show is really a ‘crisis of perception,’ which means I can stand to listen to it anymore!

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    UR Lost 2
    Canada7 months ago
  • Excellent easy to follow (because they've worked so hard to make them so) audio essays of fascinating, compelling, difficult, important topics. Cannot believe I had not heard it before. Capitalist Cannibalism was my intro

    Podcast Addict
    5
    yesterday might
    7 months ago
  • Decent content, painful narration

    Liked the content but couldn’t take the voices cadence after like five minutes. Complete lack of pacing. Felt like I was going insane while to listening. Also no sources cited in the show notes.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Not Quinn
    United States7 months ago
  • Notebooklm?

    Sounds like an AI

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Apresfiux
    Israel7 months ago

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Overall, listeners appreciate the rigorous, book-led approach and clear, evidence-based insights.
A few notes on the AI-assisted narration feel (mixed reception) and desire for more explicit sources in show notes.

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Talking Points

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The Psychology of Totalitarianism — How Fear Turns Isolation into Conformity
Q: How does Desmet link mass formation to the Enlightenment and the mechanistic worldview?
Desmet argues that the Enlightenment gave us powerful tools and technologies but also promoted a worldview that reduces everything to mechanical processes. When science becomes an ideology, it can strip human beings of meaningful purpose and ethical depth, contributing to atomization and a craving for certainty that mass formation exploits through shared narratives and rituals.
The Psychology of Totalitarianism — How Fear Turns Isolation into Conformity
Q: For the listener unfamiliar with the replication crisis, can you explain what it is and why Desmet cites it as a problem for science?
The replication crisis reveals that many published findings cannot be reproduced by other researchers, showing that data can be biased by incentives, methodological choices, and ideological commitments. This undermines the notion that numbers alone provide objective truth and highlights how scientific conclusions can be shaped by human factors, which in turn fuels skepticism toward institutions.
The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children — Schoolhouse Wedge
Q: What happens when a shared civic institution like a public school is treated merely as an empty room?
The episode explains that this perception allows national networks to weaponize a school's legitimacy for private speech and religious viewpoints, effectively turning the school into a platform for outside groups to recruit and indoctrinate students under the guise of free speech and private curriculum.
Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States — How Voting Rules Preserve Power
Q: What remedy does Daniels propose to restore credible preventive oversight?
A voter impact statement model that requires states to prove, before receiving federal funding, that new voting laws will not disproportionately harm minority voters, thereby reintroducing preventive oversight.
Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States — How Voting Rules Preserve Power
Q: Why do ostensibly neutral rules still disproportionately affect voters of color?
Because the burden of compliance falls unevenly in a society with racial disparities, so neutral laws end up producing unequal real-world outcomes that suppress minority participation.

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Crisis in Perception delivers long-form, evidence-based analyses that unpack how systems actually work across history, psychology, economics, science, and power structures. Using books as entry points, episodes examine topics from Watergate-era governance to epidemiology, digital misinformation to disaster capitalism, highlighting non-tribal reasoning and the limits of common sense. The show is notable for its thorough, book-centered approach and its use of AI-assisted narration and synthesis to support deep educational analysis. Potential listeners who enjoy rigorous context, cross-disciplinary thinking, and practical takeaways about recognizing red flags and structural dynamics will likely find it compelling and instructive.

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2. Danny Caine
3. April Ajoy
4. Gilda R. Daniels
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7. Nick Lane
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