Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers
In this week’s Frankly, Nate looks at how aggregate human behavior changes as groups scale from small tribes to large and complex societies. He uses the framing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde throughout the episode to illustrate how traits that once helped small groups survive can serve to destabilize complex societies when expanded globally.
February 23, 2026
Wars and rumors of wars: Iran edition
An attack on Iran appears imminent. Here’s why I think it’s unlikely that we’ll see President Trump “TACO” this time.
February 22, 2026
Widening the We: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense
Building an inclusionary common sense will take an understanding of the relationship between our social history, our experience of inclusionary social policies, and the opposing psychosocial dynamic that promotes a readiness to scuttle the gains those policies produced through a belonging based on fear and threat.
February 20, 2026
Black History Month: Land, Power, and the Knowledge That Survived
What forms of ecological knowledge have we ignored because they emerged from survival rather than privilege—and what would it require to center them now?
February 19, 2026
National Security
One thing is clear—when politicians invoke the phrase “national security,” they are never talking about security for the people who live in this country.
February 19, 2026
Joyful hedonism
But if form is all there is, there is never justification for ever harming another body. And that is the light that will lead us out of this rotten, brain-damaged culture…Into a life of joyful hedonism…
February 18, 2026
Ditching Dualist Language
The point is not to advocate a sudden new language, but to become more aware of the dualistic impositions deeply woven and perpetuated into modern life, through language. The point is to recognize the prison bars and the constant brainwashing rhetoric issuing from the speakers in the asylum of modernity… and to dislike the situation.
February 18, 2026
The Great Unraveling
Environmental and social challenges are compounding to threaten the systems that support the world we know. What does this Great Unraveling mean for human civilization and the global ecosystem?
