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#50: Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 1
Arnold Schroder
  • 3 days ago
  • 1 min

#50: Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 1

(05/08/2022) The year is 2250, and the participation of humanity in the global ecosystem is shaped by a council of scientists...
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#49: What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 2
Arnold Schroder
  • Apr 17
  • 1 min

#49: What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 2

(04/08/2022) We discuss the many determinants of hierarchy and equality, and many other aspects of social form, in the cross-cultural...
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#48: What We Sang in the Mountains to Greet the Gentle Rain pt. 1 (preview)
Arnold Schroder
  • Apr 8
  • 1 min

#48: What We Sang in the Mountains to Greet the Gentle Rain pt. 1 (preview)

(04/07/2020) In 2050, weary beyond reckoning but not quite dead, Arnold recounts the crises of the 2020s and the revolutionary changes...
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#47: What Is Left Authoritarianism?
Arnold Schroder
  • Apr 1
  • 2 min

#47: What Is Left Authoritarianism?

(03/31/2022) In this episode, we examine the relationship between psychological variation, social role differentiation, and power,...
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#46: What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 1
Arnold Schroder
  • Apr 1
  • 1 min

#46: What Is Politics? Interview with Daniel pt. 1

(03/23/2022) It's easy enough to use exquisitely rarefied, niche terminology to talk about politics, but do we even have a foundation of...
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#45: Return to the Circle
Arnold Schroder
  • Apr 1
  • 1 min

#45: Return to the Circle

(03/16/2022) If last episode described how we become trapped in a suicidally destructive feedback loop between biology and technology,...
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#44: Philosophy or Schizophrenia?
Arnold Schroder
  • Feb 25
  • 1 min

#44: Philosophy or Schizophrenia?

(02/24/2022) Why is the world looking more and more like the paranoid delusions of 19th century mental patients? Why do political systems...
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#43: Prison and Other Stories
Arnold Schroder
  • Feb 25
  • 1 min

#43: Prison and Other Stories

(02/21/2022) Arnold's father, George, comes to visit, and tells stories of hanging out with a revolutionary pachuco poet, covering...
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#42: Life Is Holy War pt. 2: Asymmetries of Aggression
Arnold Schroder
  • Feb 10
  • 2 min

#42: Life Is Holy War pt. 2: Asymmetries of Aggression

(02/10/2022) We continue our mashup of political psychology, the biology of aggression, and left-right brain hemisphere differences, in...
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#41: Life Is Holy War pt. 1: Two Stories about a Mountain
Arnold Schroder
  • Feb 4
  • 1 min

#41: Life Is Holy War pt. 1: Two Stories about a Mountain

(01/31/2022) In this, the most wild journey we have undertaken thus far, we examine the notion that reality consists of a tension between...
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#40: The Life and Death of Radical Environmentalism
Arnold Schroder
  • Jan 26
  • 1 min

#40: The Life and Death of Radical Environmentalism

(01/24/2022) As grief and terror about the ecological crisis intensifies, it seems increasingly curious that for many years a radical...
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#39: Destroying the World Destroyers
Arnold Schroder
  • Dec 29, 2021
  • 2 min

#39: Destroying the World Destroyers

(12/27/2021) Because it couldn't possibly be more clear that existing political systems are committed to behaviors that will cause our...
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#38: Ethnogenesis pt. 4: Becoming a People in Terra Incognita
Arnold Schroder
  • Dec 20, 2021
  • 3 min

#38: Ethnogenesis pt. 4: Becoming a People in Terra Incognita

(12/20/2021) In this episode, we conclude our broad sweep of human history, venturing fearlessly into the truly tangled wilderness of...
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#37: Times I Got Stuck in Albuquerque
Arnold Schroder
  • Dec 20, 2021
  • 1 min

#37: Times I Got Stuck in Albuquerque

(10/30/2021) Just for fun and for absolutely no other reason whatsoever, a very high, very post-surgical Arnold relates a youthful tale...
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#36: Ethnogenesis pt. 3: Sacrificial Child Gods and Social Complexity
Arnold Schroder
  • Nov 11, 2021
  • 3 min

#36: Ethnogenesis pt. 3: Sacrificial Child Gods and Social Complexity

(10/09/2021) Assuming a continuous legacy of political struggle from the earliest stages of human evolution to conflicts over power...
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#35: Ethnogenesis pt. 2: Evolutionary Anarchism
Arnold Schroder
  • Aug 19, 2021
  • 2 min

#35: Ethnogenesis pt. 2: Evolutionary Anarchism

(08/18/2021) In this episode, we examine not how biology pervades politics, but how politics pervades biology: how the course of...
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#34: Ethnogenesis pt. 1: Hill Tribes Are Like Street Kids
Arnold Schroder
  • Aug 8, 2021
  • 1 min

#34: Ethnogenesis pt. 1: Hill Tribes Are Like Street Kids

(08/07/2021) When we speak of revolution, aren't we are ultimately speaking of the creation of a different culture? And if so, how...
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#33: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 3: Despair
Arnold Schroder
  • Aug 8, 2021
  • 1 min

#33: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 3: Despair

(07/30/2021) But seriously: is there any point to doing anything at all? Or is the world truly just going to end so soon we really might...
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#32: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 2: Madness
Arnold Schroder
  • Jul 18, 2021
  • 1 min

#32: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 2: Madness

(07/16/2021) We examine the hopelessly subjective and highly contentious (one could perhaps say psychotic) process by which the...
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#31: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 1: Addiction
Arnold Schroder
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • 2 min

#31: Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 1: Addiction

(07/06/2021) As we emerge from quarantine and reveal to one another our many wounds, Arnold describes a recent, months-long period of...
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