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Do we (& why do we) suffer and die? Is there anything after death? What to make of it? How to live through it.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of Fault Lines asks what beliefs actually are, and how they have shaped every layer of human life — from the wiring of the brain, to morals and ethics, to religion, ideology, national identity, culture, and the stories we still kill and die for. Most people treat beliefs as truths they…

In this episode of Fault Lines, we strip down the machinery of human decision-making to find out if free will actually exists, or if it is just a comforting story we tell ourselves.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

War is a story we tell ourselves to make killing feel like something other than killing. This episode traces that story from ants and chimpanzees to holy wars, glory, and drone strikes — and asks who's actually cashing the cheque. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are a temporary biochemical blob on a random rock in space - eating, breathing, excreting, and massively overestimating how important you are. In this episode of Fault Lines, we take a scalpel to the human condition: your ancient monkey mind, your limited senses, your cognitive biases, your dep…

What is a leader, actually? Not the word on a job description. Not the chapter in a self-help book. The thing itself. In this episode of Fault Lines, we go looking for it across five thousand years of human history. We begin with Julius Caesar weeping in front of a statue — not because he hadn't st…

Imagine if the most powerful thing in your life doesn’t exist in any physical way, can’t be jailed, can outlive you, and yet decides how you work, what you earn, and even who goes to war. This episode takes the corporation off the balance sheet and puts it under a microscope, tracking it from risky…

Every war has two sets of heroes. Every religion has one true god. Every country has a flag worth dying for. None of that was your idea. Fault Lines explores the oldest trick in human history — how kings, priests, newspapers, governments, algorithms, and AI have always shaped what you believe, who …

Every civilisation that ever collapsed thought it was permanent. The Romans didn't think Rome would fall. The Byzantines were debating theology while cannons were being built outside their walls. The Soviets woke up one morning and the system just wasn't there anymore. And the Syrians who had jobs,…