Seeking solutions to the metacrisis

Humanity is facing multiple crises at once. If we tackle them one by one we're at risk of just playing whack-a-mole, plastering over the symptoms rather than addressing the meta level causes of the disease. In this video I argue that we need to seek solutions to the metacrisis. The term "polycrisis" is sometimes used to refer to the many crises our societies are facing at the moment: from climate change, to demographic collapse and the rise in potentially dangerous AI. But "metacrisis" is the suggestion that these many crises might have common underlying causes such as the multipolar traps, or Molochian dynamics that are often talked about by the likes of Daniel Schmachtenberger and others; and the Embedded Growth Obligations (EGOs) talked about by Eric Weinstein. These underlying dynamics are often the deeper reason why we find it so hard to solve the various problems our societies are confronting. The collapse in our collective sensemaking is not helping this either.

This video explains this overview of the metacrisis and some of the possible routes towards solutions. And it explains how the various different topics being explored on this channel are all looking at different pieces of the puzzle of this metacrisis, with an emphasis on trying to find solutions and not just raising the alarm yet again.

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00:00 - Seeking solutions
00:18 - Polycrisis and metacrisis
01:57 - Going meta
02:19 - Meta level causes
04:52 - 50 years of raising the alarm
05:52 - Material conditions
07:43 - Finding a path out
08:54 - What can we do?
12:09 - Pieces of the metacrisis puzzle


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