Episodes

#53: Red Sky, Black Snake: Eight Strategic Theses from Standing Rock

Arnold Schroder

Jun 27
1 min

#53: Red Sky, Black Snake: Eight Strategic Theses from Standing Rock

(06/27/2022) In celebration of the anniversary of the killing of Custer, to prepare for revolutionary efforts against the theocratic...

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#52: Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 2

Arnold Schroder

Jun 2
2 min

#52: Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 2

(06/02/2022) In order for scientists to start a revolution, the case for revolution must emerge from the scientific process. But that...

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#51: What We Sang in the Mountains to Greet the Gentle Rain pt. 2 (preview)

Arnold Schroder

May 22
1 min

#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...

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#50: Varieties of Scientific Revolution pt. 1

Arnold Schroder

May 15
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 7
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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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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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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Arnold Schroder

Feb 24
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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Arnold Schroder

Feb 24
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 3
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 25
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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Arnold Schroder

Dec 28, 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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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 10, 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 18, 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 7, 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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