Fifth, the US carries the world with it as it spirals into a “Great Release”, a breakdown of an 80-year long geopolitical order. Since 1945 the US has led an internationalist liberal global order. But as elites have abused US global hegemony to strip wealth from the middle classes, it has caused a populist reactionary […]

Fourth, we approach a technological Singularity. AI presents extraordinary opportunities and a profound risk of neo-Feudalism by leveling social mobility and returning wealth inequality to historic norms.

Third, psychologically, we are in a Meaning Crisis, a deeply-felt sense of spiritual vacuity because we don’t know who we are and why. Amidst a chaotic backdrop of adults who themselves seem totally confused—because they are—young people are faced with a choice to anchor their identity in a mythological theism, an arid modernity, or a

Second, culturally, the rise of Hyperreality has shattered our individual and collective sense-making. Hyperreality is a world where reality is obscured, and language and imagery create simulated faux-realities. The map is literally the territory in a world largely-indistinguishable from a simulated metaverse. Hyperreality is also fertile ground in which to grow authoritarianism.

Five historic, paradigm-changing tsunamis are washing over us and all coming into phase right now, starting first, ecologically, with the Anthropocene. The first tsunami is climate change and other ecological calamities as the Holocene of the last 12,000 years ended and the Anthropocene started, a term denoting that human influence is now the formative influence

Find Big Picture Minds and follow them. So if you’re listening to people who are trying to see a world that is way more complex than the narrow worldview they use to explain it, you’re cooked. This isn’t to say that thousands of experts aren’t awesome in their fields of expertise, just be aware if

Almost everything you know comes from only one (of three) levels of knowledge. Knowledge emerges in stages of complexity, with more abstract knowledge emerging from and reorganizing prior knowledge. There are three main levels of knowledge now (and a fourth emerging just in the past few years). – Disciplinary: Foundational, narrow research and knowledge about

The world evolves into greater complexity, and right now most everyone is drowning in a complexity gap. The world evolves through emergent structures in human social and cultural systems that both drive, and are driven by, growing levels of human consciousness. So consciousness and social complexity co-arise. These structures separate into stages or levels of