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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 9h

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Key Blindspots of the “Walrus” Movement - The Great Simplification

In this week’s Frankly, Nate unpacks some key blindspots of “the walrus movement”—a placeholder label that's a gentle nod to those championing bold social and ecological ideals. While mostly well-inte...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 9h

The only hope is some sort of a meta-political response. A systems-informed, trans-political commitment to resisting control from any direction.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 16h

In this episode, Nate is joined by Meredith Angwin for an in-depth overview of the U.S. electrical grid system, its history, and the need for accountability in energy governance.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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Reality Roundtable #19 — Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems - The Great Simplification

Psychopathy is often portrayed as a rare and distant phenomenon – something confined to movie villains or prison cells. Yet when psychopathy is combined with narcissism and Machiavellianism to form wh...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Forensic psychologist Dr. Reid Meloy is a widely cited authority on psychopathy, personality disorders, and targeted violence. He knows a thing or two about what we do with these "dark triad" individuals.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 5d

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Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good - The Great Simplification

The overarching definition of success today often looks like the accumulation of stuff – money, cars, property, clothing – anything that signals wealth. This means that success is also synonymous with...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 5d

Rutger Bregman, co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, had some simple words of advice to all of the young followers of The Great Simplification podcast, who so often feel overwhelmed by the never-ending stream of bad news happening across the planet.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 5d

Full episode:
www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

Key Blindspots of the “Walrus” Movement - The Great Simplification

In this week’s Frankly, Nate unpacks some key blindspots of “the walrus movement”—a placeholder label that's a gentle nod to those championing bold social and ecological ideals. While mostly well-inte...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 5d

As much as we might hate to admit it, capitalism is simply a product of a natural biological drive seen across all living species. We can't get rid of this drive, but could we set limits to keep us from devouring the planet?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 5d

In this week’s Frankly, Nate returns from New York City Climate Week with fresh reflections on the disconnect between our economic narratives and biophysical realities.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 6d

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Reality Roundtable #19 — Dark Triad Personality Traits: How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems - The Great Simplification

Psychopathy is often portrayed as a rare and distant phenomenon – something confined to movie villains or prison cells. Yet when psychopathy is combined with narcissism and Machiavellianism to form wh...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 6d

Psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams explains how our tools for identifying dark triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) leave much to be desired.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 7d

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Moral Ambition: Redefining Success for the Global Good - The Great Simplification

The overarching definition of success today often looks like the accumulation of stuff – money, cars, property, clothing – anything that signals wealth. This means that success is also synonymous with...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 7d

In today’s episode, Nate sits down with historian and author Rutger Bregman to discuss the concept of moral ambition, which he defines as the desire to be one of the best, not by big payouts or fancy honorifics, but by the ability to tackle the world’s biggest problems.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 8d

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The Past and Future of Societal Collapse: Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It - The Great Simplification

It’s widely known that Earth’s forests provide home to countless numbers of species, act as a vast sink for carbon, and provide much of the food, materials, and clean water on which our societies rely...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 8d

After seven years of research for his book Goliath's Curse, existential risk researcher Luke Kemp shares what he found to be the true definition of a civilization, which is often what leads to its fragility and even collapse.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 12d

In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on intraspecies predation (ours) and the impact psychopathic actors have on the mean and median of human behavior – in the past all the way up to our modern society

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 14d

In this episode, Nate is joined by existential risk researcher Luke Kemp to explore the intricate history of societal collapse – connecting patterns of dominance hierarchies, resource control, and inequality to create societies which he calls Goliaths.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 20d

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Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump - The Great Simplification

It’s widely known that Earth’s forests provide home to countless numbers of species, act as a vast sink for carbon, and provide much of the food, materials, and clean water on which our societies rely...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 20d

Without a systemic, wide-boundary lens, our scientific efforts might not be up to the global challenges we face as a species, as atmospheric physicist Anastassia Makarieva explains.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 21d

In this episode, Nate is joined by Dr. Reid Meloy and Dr. Nancy McWilliams to explore the inner workings of the Dark Triad personality traits and their manifestation in modern culture.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26d

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Reality Roundtable #18 — How Water Shapes Our Planet: The Undervalued Resource that Supports Everything We Do - The Great Simplification

Water has always been a fundamental force shaping our planet – both in sustaining life across ecosystems and in guiding the organization and survival of human societies. Yet, many of us are unaware of...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26d

Water issue expert Heather Cooley explains the multifaceted effects that a warming planet has on the water cycle upon which human civilization depends.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 27d

Full episode:
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Why We Need Forests: Their Vital Role in Climate Dynamics, Rain, and The Biotic Pump - The Great Simplification

It’s widely known that Earth’s forests provide home to countless numbers of species, act as a vast sink for carbon, and provide much of the food, materials, and clean water on which our societies rely...

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 27d

Often our conversations about doing things "the right way" fail to ask whether we should be doing them at all.

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