Becoming a Live Player

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?

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.

I have been enamored with Samo Burja’s notion of a live player for a while, which he contrasts to a dead player. From his Great Founder Theory:

A live player is a person or well-coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before. A dead player is a person or group of people that is working off a script, incapable of doin... See more

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

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.