Of course this task is monolithically complex ,so only rudiments and partial truths can be said , but here's what I've compiled from the talks I've heard:
1)Long Neotony and the extreme plasticity of brains and worldviews – i.e the education we get shapes our worldview in extremely deep and long lasting ways. Good examples are the Lex Friedman podcast with the Nord Korean dissident (when she mentions that there isnt a word for I only we over there/that all love is towards the ruler, not even for your own children ), gives credence to that whole idea of how plastic and sugestible we are ; the allegory of the cave; the ancient animistic worldviews: where the hunters thanked the prey for sacrificing itself for the tribe, talking about the newborn baby and how the newest mother from the village really needed this food.
I think those concepts are useful to triangulate what I mean, or anyone with a religious upbringing or any weird belief, instilled in childhood, would be able to underestand, how we bassically dont know anything and believe at first, the way our parents/social circle and experiences desribe, and we become preset towards certain interpretations about ourselves-reality-others- the future etc.
So if the child is instilled with principles that game B keeps mentioning, like the idea, that all of humanity is in the same boat, that competition and capitalism that externalizes its cost, and destroys our environment ,is bassically a race towards a red light. If the educational process would have a class for this,to iluminate the ideas of him/her being a global citizen, an ancestor for the future generations, another link in the chain of humanity and life, a transient steward of earth etc.
2)Block chain or other economic/fiscal systems, because capitalism is failing (it isnt even text-book capitalism because central banks use quantitative easing, fractional reserve banking, because of the idea of the petro-dollar instead of a gold backed currency,it is happening in the context of the Breton Woods convention/ pax Americana context, where US policed the world's oceans and ensured that trade is easier than conflict -for everyone), communism failed everywhere when it was tried, ( Read Atlas Shrugged its very insightful on the un-intuitive short fallings of communism and human nature/or watch documentaries about Soviet bureaucracies).
3) The idea that the level of the "City" is where governing meets reality, and anything above that begins to get distorted. Jacque Valee with his Zeitgeist noticed this first, Jordan Hall's Civium is something similar.
4)The Dunbar number type of interindividual relationships -Meaning us, evolving in tribes of 100-150 people and being held accountable, our work had meaning and recognition,gossip and social comparison had a regulatory funciton, a tab keeping funciton,a motivational function ,the idea of in-group and out-group having only "local" relevance and not global as it has today .The stable 2% of the population -psychopathic individuals didnt matter then, with that small population etc. That was our environment of evolutionary adaptadness (EEA).
5) Psychedelics as quick shortcuts to underestanding- in an embodied experiential way – these realisations, that are recurentlly talked about in Game B .
6)The efforts of sense-making, coherence,education of the population (because you have to know a lot of information to even be cognisant that we're in a civilisational collapse scenario/extinction scenario). The enemy here is social media platforms' algorithms, which keep the world devised into eco-chambers which can vallidate any belief, as anything that is clicked will become recurent in that individual's feed so as to generate add-revenue and maximise time-on-site for the company.
I would suggest a place that becomes a central node to this network, a brand, a flag, a naming of our certain body of ideas (as the name GAME B ,Intelectual Dark Web etc was) a place where people can converge and intersect,where everything branches off of; Also curation would be the hardest thing and what to include or exclude in it.
7) Technology somehow saving us (be it colonising other planets/fixing our energy use through nuclear fission,renewables and electric cars or other things along those lines/fixing our environment through technology or regenerative agriculture, forestation etc/uploading our consciousness into digital environments and letting an A.I manage this massive amount of data, thus making ourselves apart of that A.I,being useful to it, so as to eliminate the risk of it killing us.
8)Regression as our only sollution,a massive decrease in population ,carrying capacity of the planet vs living standards that would be an interesting debate,would we choose a global one child policiy ,or a eugenics programme ,to better our species ,or what will we do? If the lab leak hypothesis is to be believed and there being inetentionality and agency behind it, it seems others are already ahead of us in this regard willingly or not.
9) An inverse of a population's addictiveness as a measure of its well-being and not using GDP as a metric.
Please add your own observations, and comments. Written at 2 am will edit tomorrow for the hard to follow logic or typos.
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