Of all the challenges facing our culture, the fact that humans use social sorting mechanisms to solve physical world problems looms as perhaps the greatest. This Frankly is a reflection on the possibility of sharing a socially unpalatable message to a large percentage of citizens and leaders. Our vertical and horizontal social infrastructure isn’t built to process, share and address challenges of this magnitude – but instead to ignore, water down, and mitigate. Will the quiet part be spread out loud to large amounts of humans as The Great Simplification becomes more obvious? Or will the quiet part be socially squashed a la George Orwell? Of course I have particular interest in this question, and its resolution. Time is moving very fast…
In French, we have a motto that says that a simple drawing is often better than a long explanation. Jean-Marc Jancovici Carbone 4 President
That’s very understandable because with left atmosphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher
We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Director of ISEOF
This is the crux of the whole problem. Individual parts of nature are more valuable than the biocomplexity of nature. Thomas Crowther Founder Restor
Show Notes & Links to Learn More
00:18 – World Economic Forum (Davos)
02:37 – Our economic system is based on the labor of 500,000,000 human labor equivalents
03:06 – Since 1970 we’ve lost 70% of population of birds, animals, and fishes
03:31 – We use finance to manipulate these trends
04:06 – Humans use social sorting mechanisms to solve problems (memetic tribes)
03:40 – 19 terawatt economy
04:35 – Humans largely communicate within their own tribes
05:15 – Smoke filled room study
06:35 – Humans are more likely to find popular people and things credible
09:21 – George Orwell (1984), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
10:41 – The Great Reset
