The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria

Summary

Nate Hagens, host of ‘The Great Simplification’, asks what might grow as the fossil-fuelled economic ‘Superorganism’ splinters. His answer is a list of inner traits, from grounding and grief to restraint and play, which he likens to mitochondria, the engines of a cell. Because “the future is not planned. It’s seeded”, and “Culture doesn’t change by decree. It changes by mitochondria. Us.”

Rationale

It gave our glossary ‘cultural mitochondria’. Where we differ is emphasis: he looks to traits in individuals, we to the contexts that grow them.