The Flip, Formation and the Fun - A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures

Summary

A wide-ranging conversation in which Jonathan Rowson, Perspectiva co-founder and chess grandmaster, tells Nate Hagens why he prefers ‘metacrisis’ to ‘polycrisis’: it lets us “look within the problem”, at “the underlying story of the human being”. His response has three parts – a flip in our relationship to reality, a formative education and fun: “host a better party”.

Rationale

No switch inside us “can get flipped” for good, we wrote, so ‘the flip’ gives us pause. But Rowson means something slower, which “happens culturally over a period of time”.