To Watch:
The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis:
This is a conversation between Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke and Daniel Schmachtenberger. With no planned objective or agenda, the discussion sought to outline the cognitive and spiritual components of the metacrisis. The metacrisis is the total ecosystem of all global crises and the common underlying dynamics that generate catastrophic and existential risks.
@corlin Watching now -- this thing about a mechanistic view of reality is what I woke up thinking about this morning.
When we humans see cause-and-effect in linear and predictable ways when they aren't as predictable as assumed, we get ourselves into significant psychic tangles.
I've witnessed how people speak with a kind of candid, rational superstition. Surprisingly, this phenomenon exists within many paradigms, including ones that have conventionally spoken directly against superstition.
@corlin I have a list of topics I want to research into podcast episodes, and this conversation touches on nearly all of them.
Wisdom
Value
Mutuality
Faith (whatever this means to people)
Power
I appreciate the idea that wisdom requires constraint. As pointed out, this a key the piece that is missing in our current cultural climate. It shows up in our stories (great power, great responsibility), but lack of restraint is the obvious root of the financial crisis of 2008, as just one example.