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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Feb 24, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Feb 24, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Feb 10, 20222 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Feb 3, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Jan 25, 20221 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Dec 28, 20212 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Dec 20, 20213 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Dec 20, 20211 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Nov 10, 20213 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Aug 18, 20212 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Aug 7, 20211 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Jul 18, 20211 min read
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#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...

Arnold Schroder
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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#30: Heal Like An Animal: Interview with Joshua Sylvae pt. 3
(06/27/2021) In this episode, Arnold asks Joshua a series of truly fundamental questions to which no one has decisive answers: questions...

Arnold Schroder
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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#29: Believing You're Trapped in a Simulation Is the New Punk Rock (preview)
(04/20/2021) We continue our examination of the revolutionary period of 2032-3, relying heavily on the psychographic researcher Sarah...

Arnold Schroder
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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#28: Group Mind pt. 6: Suburban Holy War
(04/07/2021) We continue the examination of the post-materialist shift, and the emergence of increasingly niche subcultures, that we...

Arnold Schroder
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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#27: Scientific Militant pt. 3 + Aggression and Specialization pt. 2
(03/24/2021) In this episode, a 72-year-old Arnold reflects on how our species and the global ecosystem managed to survive to 2050. We...

Arnold Schroder
Mar 25, 20211 min read
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#26: Group Mind pt. 5: Everybody Loves a Narcissist
(03/06/2021) In this episode, we take a rollicking journey through the minds of narcissists, the emergence of states, and the seemingly...

Arnold Schroder
Mar 25, 20212 min read
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#25: Group Mind pt. 4: The World Is a Lot Like the Internet
(02/11/2021) In this episode, we examine the way the internet is changing us through the lens of evolved group psychology. We follow the...

Arnold Schroder
Feb 16, 20212 min read
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