Becoming a Live Player

If the meta-crisis is true, or even partly true, then the stakes are high. Shit could collectively hit the fan within our lifetime, and as evidenced by the collective wake-up call that is COVID, the meta-crisis seems to be well on its way.

This is what live players not only need to do, but this is what live players are called to do. Desire paths are needed today, on a collective scale, more than ever. The old paths, the ones the dead players are walking on, will not be the paths that will inspire a new world to emerge. The good news is that desire paths are the paths that make us com... See more

We see others lose their jobs or harassed online for publicly sharing their views, and this has a chilling effect. People become afraid to speak their truth. It is easier to bullshit, but bullshitting is not going to address the collective challenges we are facing.

It is pretty hard to address the meta-crisis when a meaning crisis and culture war is happening. If many people are living in a way that does not engender a sense of meaning or are too busy yelling at each other via memes, how are we going to address our greatest collective challenges?

Following a script of what we should do, or waiting for somebody to write one for us, is not going to create a new world. It may work in a more narrow success domain, but it will not help us know how to live with all the collective challenges we face.

Just like there are competing products for us to purchase, now there are competing worldviews trying to purchase us. We are not only disorientated by the many options for addressing the meaning crisis, but we also feel undue pressure to conform to them, or else we’ll be given a stigmatizing label.

The phenomena of the ‘desire path’ is related to all of this. A desire path describes a path that is revealed from erosion by human foot traffic. They usually appear because constructed paths are not the most effective to get to one’s destination, and sometimes going “off the beaten path” becomes the best path.

The meaning crisis is the experience of an existential vacuum on a societal scale, evidenced by an increase of anxiety disorders, depression, and suicide rates

Bullshit is a different phenomenon than lying, as lying attempts to influence while being aware of what is true, bullshit on the other hand attempts to influence without any consideration about what is true, or what truth even means.