"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 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
To me, the significance of the theory is its introduction of a coherent frame by which we can better understand root causes for the complex array of global catastrophic risks and the prevailing crises that humanity currently faces. Critically, the Metacrisis theory also calls to our attention a staggering hidden premonition: our civilization struct... See more
Intro to the Metacrisis
Intro to the Metacrisis
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most important we need to put our big picture capability to work on the problems that now haunt us. Most of these problems are systemic. Their causes are deep and multiple.
Grant McCracken • What if culture is the solution: Big Pictures 005
owing to the fact that behind the many interconnected problems of the metacrisis there is a deep ideological problem (i.e., a lack of unified narrative), metamodernism can be defined as a new collective value system1 that incorporates, contextualizes and transcends all previous value systems while resolving the conflict between them in an integrate
... See moreAlex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
The human species is in the latter stages of the kind of transformation of context that only occurs every five hundred years or so. The meta-crisis is not merely ‘a lot of problems’ that we may or may not solve, rather it is the character of this time between worlds, where one world system is dying but another has yet to be born.
Jonathan Rowson • Now that you’ve found the others what are you going to do? - Emerge
The biggest and most-discussed problems of our era — the current pandemic, climate change, political and ideological polarization, racial and income inequality, global supply chains, among others — can only be understood and engaged with as systems of interrelated phenomena and actions.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
So when we’re in trouble, we often look for the next big idea that will fix everything. We get excited about big narratives that explain where we are, why we’re struggling, and what we need to do differently in order to fix it. We get hyped to embark upon a bold new chapter—only to realize later that our fortunes haven’t changed that much, the team... See more
Every • Execution Is Exponential
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.