"The metacrisis" implies the need for a single "metasolution" that fixes everything. That's impossible; there are many, diverse practical problems that need diverse practical ameliorations. https://t.co/8kYYLM3lkO
David Chapmanx.com"The metacrisis" implies the need for a single "metasolution" that fixes everything. That's impossible; there are many, diverse practical problems that need diverse practical ameliorations. https://t.co/8kYYLM3lkO
The problem is that with all that knowledge, it is easy to get overconfident and to rush, simply listing the pressures and putting an intervention against each of them. Down that path lies madness. It is entirely possible for a single pressure to give rise to many interventions and equally possible for one intervention to satisfy many pressures.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations