An Introduction to the Metacrisis

Summary

Provocations from the founder of the Consilience Project: “We are at the end of history…what would it take to turn the entire arc of humanity?…what would it mean for our species to be wise enough to steward (our) power safely?…you are in service to a life that is beautiful, a world that is beautiful…and you are at a time when there is a higher possible consequence from your actions than there has ever been for humans, and there is an obligation in that, and a meaningfulness in that, that you don’t want to waste.”

Rationale

Like us, he looks beneath separate crises to what drives them; we’ve gone looking for those drivers in everyday culture.