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#58 | Frankly

The Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Bend Not Break’ Version

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In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative “archetypes” of our human world grouped by various timelines. The eventual reduction in energy and material accessibility will likely alter the archetypes that we’re familiar with today – perhaps to become something not helpful to larger society. What categories of human archetypes in the future will have the potential to best influence their communities and the Earth? What will the most powerful among us choose when it comes to protecting their (monetary, temporary) wealth vs using it towards prosocial collective responses? Finally, and most importantly what archetypes will form a new Fellowship of humans to ‘bring the ring to Mordor’ during humanity’s ‘Bend not Break’ moment? Which archetype do you resonate with? Are there others?

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

00:04 – Frankly 57

00:36 – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, LOTR Trilogy

02:22 – Optimal Foraging

02:57 – Money supply and income

03:38 – Energy Surplus

03:59 – Carbon Pulse

04:44 – Global North

04:52 – 60 to 70 devices plugged in

06:29 – Loss Aversion

06:58 – Patrick Knodel on TGS

07:18 – AI

07:20 – Big Data

07:28 – Cyborg

08:36 – George Floyd

09:36 – Star Trek, Lokai

12:10 – Global Supply Chain

13:00 – Carl Jung

17:38 – Overton Window

17:50 – Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Gaza

23:48 – David and Goliath

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