
Destroying the World Destroyers
Because it couldn't possibly be more clear that existing political systems are committed to behaviors that will cause our extinction, one has to ask: can we just sabotage the fossil fuel economy out o...
27 Des 20211h 29min

Ethnogenesis pt. 4: Becoming a People in Terra Incognita
In this episode, we conclude our broad sweep of human history, venturing fearlessly into the truly tangled wilderness of variables mediating the relationship between technology and hierarchy. We criti...
20 Des 20213h 6min

Times I Got Stuck in Albuquerque
Just for fun and for absolutely no other reason whatsoever, a very high, very post-surgical Arnold relates a youthful tale of desert, night and madness: A tale which will do nothing whatsoever to desc...
30 Nov 202142min

Ethnogenesis pt. 3: Sacrificial Child Gods and Social Complexity
Assuming a continuous legacy of political struggle from the earliest stages of human evolution to conflicts over power today, we speculate about the politics of societies in the distant past. We discu...
10 Nov 20212h 17min

Ethnogenesis pt. 2: Evolutionary Anarchism
In this episode, we examine not how biology pervades politics, but how politics pervades biology: how the course of evolution has been shaped by millions of years of what can only be described as poli...
19 Aug 20211h 53min

Ethnogenesis pt. 1: Hill Tribes Are Like Street Kids
When we speak of revolution, aren't we are ultimately speaking of the creation of a different culture? And if so, how plausible or meaningful is it to imagine deliberately crafting a culture? In this ...
7 Aug 202156min

Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 3: Despair
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 as well just kind of reach for whatever or whoever kills the pain and stop p...
30 Jul 20211h 6min

Addiction, Madness, Despair pt. 2: Madness
We examine the hopelessly subjective and highly contentious (one could perhaps say psychotic) process by which the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the so-called bible of psychia...
16 Jul 20211h 57min


















