Human Nature Odyssey

By Alex Leff

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Subscribers: 11
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 20

LH
 Jun 27, 2025
Making ideas that are otherwise excluded under the defining worldview of the 2020s more engaging and thoughtful. Monopoly episode is A++ audio and storytelling

Lisa Gaunky
 Jul 31, 2024
This really resonates with me as someone who has always looked at society as somewhat of an outsider looking in. I absolutely love the way this is presented.

Description

Human Nature Odyssey: a podcast about humanity, civilization, and the fate of the world. You are living the latest chapter in a 10,000 year story. Join storyteller Alex Leff on a search for better ways to understand and more clearly experience the incredible, terrifying, and ridiculous world we live in. The first stop on our quest through a landscape of ideas and stories is the 1992 novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn about a telepathic gorilla with great hope for humanity.

Episode Date
Sex at Dawn, Civilized to Death, and Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Aug 28, 2025
14 - The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 3)
Jul 24, 2025
13 - The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 2)
Jun 26, 2025
12 - The King Is Dead, Now What? The 250-Year Struggle for Democracy (Part 1)
May 22, 2025
Astrophysics for a New Stone Age with Tom Murphy
Dec 19, 2024
11 - Capitalism & Monopoly: Why The Best Board Games Make The Worst Reality
Nov 26, 2024
10 - Against Leviathan: An Anarchist Fairytale of the Origin of Civilization
Oct 24, 2024
9 - Out of Society and Into the Wild: The Legend of Christopher McCandless
Sep 19, 2024
Can We Escape Modern Civilization? A Conversation with the Hosts of Crazy Town
Aug 29, 2024
Death in the Regenerative Garden: Rethinking Food, Farming, and the Cycle of Life
Jul 25, 2024
Worldbuilding and Experience Design for Society with Abraham Burickson
Jun 13, 2024
8 - A Conversation with Rennie MacKay Quinn (wife of author Daniel Quinn)
Dec 14, 2023
7 - After 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn
Nov 16, 2023
6 - A Civilization That Flies
Oct 05, 2023
5 - Adam, Eve, and the Agricultural Revolution
Sep 07, 2023
4 - Takers and Leavers
Aug 10, 2023
3 - Imaginary Games for Grown Ups
Jul 06, 2023
2 - Your Call To Adventure
Jun 08, 2023
1 - Self-Help Guide for Society
May 04, 2023
Human Nature Odyssey Trailer
Apr 13, 2023