{"id":3507690,"date":"2025-01-22T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?page_id=3507690"},"modified":"2025-01-22T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:53:56","slug":"hno-episodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/human-nature-odyssey-podcast\/hno-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Nature Odyssey Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To King or Not to King\u2026 Are We Seriously Asking this Question?<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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After the more than two centuries since the American and French Revolutions, the kings are back — or at least, trying to be. But we don\u2019t have to be stuck in this strange cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

June 13, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 12. The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 1)<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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Across the world, politics is often framed as left vs. right. But where did that divide begin? This episode traces the roots back to the French Revolution and the centuries-long struggle over liberty, power, and the future of democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

May 22, 2025<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 11. Capitalism & Monopoly: Why The Best Board Games Make The Worst Reality<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein\u2019s World-Systems Analysis is our instruction manual to colonization and exploitation. We explore how dominant countries rise and fall, the dance between capitalism and the state, and the unexpected truth about what real power looks like. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

November 26, 2024<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 10. Against Leviathan: An Anarchist Fairytale of the Origin of Civilization<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

Gather around the campfire for a ghost story about the most destructive monster in history: civilization. Through the book \u201cAgainst His-Story, Against Leviathan,\u201d we\u2019ll explore how authoritarianism first took root in the world’s earliest cities\u2014and how those ancient systems still shape modernity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

October 24, 2024<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 9. Out of Society and Into the Wild: The Legend of Christopher McCandless<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

In the spring of 1992, twenty-four-year-old Christopher McCandless left society behind, hitchhiking 3,000 miles into the Alaskan wilderness. We\u2019ll explore McCandless\u2019s legacy, the conflict between self and society, community and solitude, and the concept of \u201cwilderness.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

September 19, 2024<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 8. A Conversation with Rennie MacKay Quinn (wife of author Daniel Quinn)<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

In this very special episode, author Daniel Quinn\u2019s wife Rennie Mackay Quinn joins us for her first ever interview: sharing untold stories, new insights, and reflections on her life and journey with her beloved late husband Daniel Quinn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

December 14, 2023<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 7. After \u2018Ishmael\u2019 by Daniel Quinn<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

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In this climactic culmination of the Ishmael series, we ask the question: How do we transform an entire society? We\u2019ll meet the fantastical Prince who first concocted the criminal justice system, have a final reckoning with our Taker Mythology hat, and return to the abandoned land of Ashbourne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 6. A Civilization That Flies<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

Is it possible to build a civilization that flies? (Metaphorically speaking of course.) How did we first learn to fly in the first place? It wasn\u2019t by defying gravity and disobeying aerodynamics but by learning how to work with them. This is an episode of short stories, cinematic sound effects, and wacky voices. Strap in for liftoff. <\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 5. Adam, Eve, and the Agricultural Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

The story of the Garden of Eden has been told and retold for thousands of years. Why do we keep telling it? With insight from modern biblical scholarship, we investigate the origins of this ancient story and what warning this active myth still has yet to be heeded today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 4. Takers and Leavers<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t

Alex Leff<\/a>, Human Nature Odyssey<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t

When we use the term \u201ccivilization\u201d who do we include and exclude? Who is civilized and what does that mean? In this episode we take a step back from Ishmael to better view the context it was written in, discussing noble savage theory, romantic-primitivism, and the rise of the identity \u201cindigenous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t

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