Escape Routes! That's the theme of the sixth season of Crazy Town. We're exploring how to escape industrialism, consumerism, globalism, capitalism, and all the other -isms that are causing a polycrisis of environmental and social breakdown. Most of all, Jason, Rob, and Asher are looking to maintain their sense of humor while escaping fatalism and finding meaningful ways to avoid collapse.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.

Sources/Links/Notes:

• Wikipedia article on China’s Mango Cult
• France’s Dancing Plague of 1518
• Geoffrey Cohen, Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides, W. W. Norton, 2022
• Asch line experiment
• Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet
• Summary of Marvin Harris’s work on cultural materialism
• Research that extends Asch’s conformity experiments and highlights the personality trait of openness as a key to resisting the behavior of conforming.
• Big Five Personality Assessment
• Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley

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