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Arnold Schroder
Mar 11, 20232 min read
#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....
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Arnold Schroder
Mar 11, 20232 min read
#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...
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Arnold Schroder
Jan 2, 20233 min read
#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...
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Arnold Schroder
Dec 24, 20224 min read
#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...
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Arnold Schroder
Dec 5, 20221 min read
#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...
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Arnold Schroder
Nov 20, 20222 min read
#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...
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Arnold Schroder
Jun 27, 20221 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
Jun 2, 20222 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
May 22, 20221 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
May 14, 20221 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
Apr 24, 202249 min read
The Biology of the Left-Right Divide
Abstract art and oppression In his short story “The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim”, Borges describes a protagonist who participates in a...
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Arnold Schroder
Apr 17, 20221 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
Apr 7, 20221 min read
#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, 20222 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
Apr 1, 20221 min read
#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, 20221 min read
#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
Mar 7, 202253 min read
The World Got a Lot Like the Internet
This is chapter one of my forthcoming book, and corresponds roughly to podcast episodes 25, "The World Is a Lot Like the Internet", and...
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Arnold Schroder
Feb 24, 20221 min read
#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, 20221 min read
#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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Arnold Schroder
Feb 10, 20222 min read
#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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