60 acast.com Fault Lines https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/losers-almanac en Shiv Sinha Making sense of life Fault Lines the human experience

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]]> false S Sinha info+6949865d3aa794d3c604645a@mg-eu.acast.com 6949865d3aa794d3c604645a losers-almanac episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6949865d3aa794d3c604645a/1778679359236-bb20adee-5106-49b1-bc48-d3ee191c4182.jpeg https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/losers-almanac Fault Lines Fault Line 5: Communism Fault Line 5: Communism Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:05:00 GMT 30:21 6a1446b08ff41815a8feef08 false https://shows.acast.com/losers-almanac/episodes/6a1446b08ff41815a8feef08 6a1446b08ff41815a8feef08 6949865d3aa794d3c604645a We live in a Marxist world full You enjoy your weekend. You have rights at work. Your kids go to school instead of a factory floor. None of that was inevitable. All of it was fought for. And the intellectual ammunition behind almost every one of those fights traces back to one difficult, brilliant, frequently broke German philosopher — Karl Marx.

This episode is not about gulags. It is not about the Cold War. It is about the idea. Where it came from, why it spread to every corner of the planet, and why you — whether you love Marx or loathe him — are living inside his world right now. From the factories of Manchester to the cobalt mines of the Congo, from Victorian Britain to modern Vietnam, this is the story of the most successful ideology in human history.


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]]> You enjoy your weekend. You have rights at work. Your kids go to school instead of a factory floor. None of that was inevitable. All of it was fought for. And the intellectual ammunition behind almost every one of those fights traces back to one difficult, brilliant, frequently broke German philosopher — Karl Marx.

This episode is not about gulags. It is not about the Cold War. It is about the idea. Where it came from, why it spread to every corner of the planet, and why you — whether you love Marx or loathe him — are living inside his world right now. From the factories of Manchester to the cobalt mines of the Congo, from Victorian Britain to modern Vietnam, this is the story of the most successful ideology in human history.


You have already benefited from it.

Whether you know it or not.

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]]> Fault Line 4: Capitalism Fault Line 4: Capitalism Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:05:00 GMT 17:52 6a121b4b9feea1b67ec46b27 false https://shows.acast.com/losers-almanac/episodes/6a121b4b9feea1b67ec46b27 6a121b4b9feea1b67ec46b27 6949865d3aa794d3c604645a Capitalism no longer exists full Capitalism is the story every modern economy tells about itself. But is anyone actually living it? From prehistoric obsidian traders to trillion-dollar bailouts, this episode traces the real history of capitalism — the version Adam Smith theorised, the version Karl Marx feared, and the version governments quietly practice while publicly preaching the free market gospel. We go inside the 2008 financial crisis, the 2020 pandemic stimulus, and the uncomfortable truth that in America, France, and China alike, the rules of capitalism apply rigorously to the small — and get suspended gracefully for the large. True capitalism may be the biggest myth the modern world has ever agreed to believe.


capitalism, free market, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, 2008 financial crisis, Federal Reserve, stock market, geopolitics, economic history

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]]> Capitalism is the story every modern economy tells about itself. But is anyone actually living it? From prehistoric obsidian traders to trillion-dollar bailouts, this episode traces the real history of capitalism — the version Adam Smith theorised, the version Karl Marx feared, and the version governments quietly practice while publicly preaching the free market gospel. We go inside the 2008 financial crisis, the 2020 pandemic stimulus, and the uncomfortable truth that in America, France, and China alike, the rules of capitalism apply rigorously to the small — and get suspended gracefully for the large. True capitalism may be the biggest myth the modern world has ever agreed to believe.


capitalism, free market, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, 2008 financial crisis, Federal Reserve, stock market, geopolitics, economic history

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]]> Fault Line 3: Left vs Right Fault Line 3: Left vs Right Sat, 30 May 2026 09:05:00 GMT 39:03 6a107dbd9feea1b67e733ae7 false https://shows.acast.com/losers-almanac/episodes/6a107dbd9feea1b67e733ae7 6a107dbd9feea1b67e733ae7 6949865d3aa794d3c604645a why do we worship Left and Right ideology? full

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]]> Fault Line 2: God Worship Fault Line 2: God Worship Sat, 23 May 2026 09:05:00 GMT 31:15 6a0dd47d3bbd73b46eeee962 false https://shows.acast.com/losers-almanac/episodes/6a0dd47d3bbd73b46eeee962 6a0dd47d3bbd73b46eeee962 6949865d3aa794d3c604645a Saviour of the Humans full Every human civilisation that has ever existed invented gods. Not the same gods - but gods. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Vedic poets of ancient India, the Greeks, the Norse, the Aztecs — all of them looked up at the same sky and came back with completely different stories about who made the world, and why.

In this episode, we ask the oldest question: why do humans worship at all? We move from the Enuma Elish of ancient Babylon — the world's oldest creation myth — through the gods of Egypt, the Rigveda's radical Hymn of Creation, the psychology of William James and Carl Jung, the neuroscience of religious experience, and the philosophical traditions that tried to answer the question of meaning without a god at all.


We cover: Mesopotamian mythology, Egyptian religion, Vedic gods, monotheism, Buddhism, Stoicism, the psychology of belief, and what the human brain does when it prays.

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]]> Every human civilisation that has ever existed invented gods. Not the same gods - but gods. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Vedic poets of ancient India, the Greeks, the Norse, the Aztecs — all of them looked up at the same sky and came back with completely different stories about who made the world, and why.

In this episode, we ask the oldest question: why do humans worship at all? We move from the Enuma Elish of ancient Babylon — the world's oldest creation myth — through the gods of Egypt, the Rigveda's radical Hymn of Creation, the psychology of William James and Carl Jung, the neuroscience of religious experience, and the philosophical traditions that tried to answer the question of meaning without a god at all.


We cover: Mesopotamian mythology, Egyptian religion, Vedic gods, monotheism, Buddhism, Stoicism, the psychology of belief, and what the human brain does when it prays.

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]]> <![CDATA[Fault Line 1: Countries & Nation States]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 18:22:20 GMT 54:18 6a0880ae3fd6979bfccc4f63 false https://shows.acast.com/losers-almanac/episodes/6a0880ae3fd6979bfccc4f63 6a0880ae3fd6979bfccc4f63 6949865d3aa794d3c604645a Countries, nation states and borders full Every bird that flies over a border does so without a passport. Every river that crosses one does so without permission. So why do humans — alone among all living things — build walls, draw lines, and die for the invisible?

This episode traces the full arc of one of humanity's most powerful and peculiar inventions — the nation-state. From the first walled settlements of ancient Mesopotamia, through the empires of Rome, the Islamic Caliphates, and the courts of Kautilya and Ibn Khaldun, to the Peace of Westphalia, the age of European colonialism, and the founding of the United Nations — Fault Lines asks where the idea of a country actually came from. And whether it was ever really real.

Along the way: why the nation and the state are not the same thing, what happened when European powers drew borders across Africa and the Middle East they had never walked, and what sovereignty actually means in a world too interconnected to be truly Westphalian.

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]]> Every bird that flies over a border does so without a passport. Every river that crosses one does so without permission. So why do humans — alone among all living things — build walls, draw lines, and die for the invisible?

This episode traces the full arc of one of humanity's most powerful and peculiar inventions — the nation-state. From the first walled settlements of ancient Mesopotamia, through the empires of Rome, the Islamic Caliphates, and the courts of Kautilya and Ibn Khaldun, to the Peace of Westphalia, the age of European colonialism, and the founding of the United Nations — Fault Lines asks where the idea of a country actually came from. And whether it was ever really real.

Along the way: why the nation and the state are not the same thing, what happened when European powers drew borders across Africa and the Middle East they had never walked, and what sovereignty actually means in a world too interconnected to be truly Westphalian.

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