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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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#24: Heal Like an Animal: Interview with Joshua Sylvae pt. 2
(02/06/2021) In our last discussion, Joshua described cross-species uniformities in responses to traumatic experiences, and how he works...
Arnold Schroder
Feb 16, 20211 min read
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#23: Aggression, Specialization, Dysregulation, and Power
(01/30/2021) Unlock the entire episode at https://www.patreon.com/biologicalsingularity The year is 2050, and I have been making this...
Arnold Schroder
Feb 16, 20211 min read
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#22: Group Mind pt. 3: Oxytocin Atrocities
We use religious cults as an example of extreme group psychology to make generalizations about the group dynamics that determine...
Arnold Schroder
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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#21: Heal Like An Animal: Interview with Joshua Sylvae pt. 1
(01/07/2021) Joshua Sylvae practices and teaches Somatic Experiencing, an approach to trauma recovery based on a cross-species...
Arnold Schroder
Jan 26, 20211 min read
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#20: Group Mind pt. 2: Concerts, riots, cults
(12/27/2020) We continue to describe extreme aspects of group psychology, delving into the phenomena like death from social exclusion. We...
Arnold Schroder
Dec 29, 20202 min read
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#19: Scientific militant pt. 2
(12/06/2020) How scientific is science? In this episode, we further the argument that "science communication" about the ecological crisis...
Arnold Schroder
Dec 18, 20201 min read
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