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#64.1-3: Metamorphosis pt. 3: Your Body Is a Map of the Sky
(06/21/2023) #64.1: The Rupture in the Fabric of Reality Model of Human Cognition. We continue to assess our future evolutionary...

Arnold Schroder
Jun 22, 20239 min read
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#63: Metamorphosis pt. 2: The Cognitive Evolutionary Avant-Garde
(05/20/2023) We assess the future of our evolutionary journey by asking what it was like, experientially, to be at the forefront of...

Arnold Schroder
May 26, 20233 min read
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#62: Metamorphosis pt. 1: The Age of Mutual Incomprehension
(05/13/2023) This series examines the future of the human evolutionary journey. Can we adopt behaviors other than the ones that are...

Arnold Schroder
May 14, 20232 min read
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#61: The Incompetent Authoritarianism of Vladimir Lenin
(05/10/2023) Having grown up in a time when anarchism was the ubiquitous form of revolutionary politics, Daniel of What Is Politics? and...

Arnold Schroder
May 13, 20231 min read
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#60: Revolutionary Biology pt. 2: The Development and Evolution of Sasquatch
(03/10/2023) As an illustration of the extraordinary plasticity of the human species, we examine the story of Zana, whose genetics,...

Arnold Schroder
Mar 13, 20233 min read
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#59: Revolutionary Biology pt. 1: Nature vs. Nurture vs. Synthesis
(03/06/2023) Nature vs. nurture thinking simply makes no sense: an entity can only respond to its environment via evolved capacities....

Arnold Schroder
Mar 11, 20232 min read
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#58: The Raven Politics of Terra Incognita
(01/18/2023) A uniquely stand-alone episode of the Fight Like An Animal 2050 fictional series usually reserved for Patreon, here we...

Arnold Schroder
Mar 11, 20232 min read
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#57: Narcissists, Strongmen, and Technocrats pt. 2
(01/01/2022) Why are states incapable of navigating the ecological crisis? We progress to the third of our six explanatory levels for...

Arnold Schroder
Jan 2, 20233 min read
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#56: Narcissists, Strongmen, and Technocrats pt. 1
(12/23/2022) We examine a scientific case for revolution: that modern societies are forms of dominance hierarchy that grant power to...

Arnold Schroder
Dec 24, 20224 min read
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#55: Glitching Is the New Tweaking
(12/05/2022) This episode of Fight Like An Animal 2050 tells the story of the initial meetings, in 2025, at which a strategy was...

Arnold Schroder
Dec 5, 20221 min read
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#54: Myth, Science, Power
(11/17/2022) Why is it that apocalyptic cults have been such a common aspect of the human experience, but are largely absent from our...

Arnold Schroder
Nov 20, 20222 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Jun 27, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
May 22, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
May 15, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Apr 17, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Apr 7, 20221 min read
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#47: What Is Left Authoritarianism?
(03/31/2022) In this episode, we examine the relationship between psychological variation, social role differentiation, and power,...

Arnold Schroder
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Apr 1, 20221 min read
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#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,...

Arnold Schroder
Apr 1, 20221 min read
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