Brandon, Thanks for this. With your permission I would like to adapt this into a Wikiversity learning resource. That will make the materials widely available from an accessable, open, and enduring platform in the public domain As our learning evolves, we can easily improve the resource. I will probably link this from the Aligned Work<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikiversity.org_wiki_Level-5F5-5FResearch-5FCenter-23Aligned-5FWork&d=DwIGaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=-CFaZg8LOlxqZGEnZxdcU_1rf_KfxNuMoSMohpINVjI&s=mTLC40t8UfR4UkzGLkxhKDqvHWBuGVixU7NeYHI-bsA&e= > section of the Level 5 Research Center. If you are agreeable, please email me a stable copy of the table. Thanks, Lee Beaumont On Nov 29, 2021, at 5:15 AM, Victor MacGill <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ________________________________ Might we add Peer to Peer Michel Bauwens On 29/11/2021 9:21 pm, Jonathan Rowson wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ________________________________ Hi Brandon, Thanks for sharing this initiative. The cartological hedonist in me is always happy to see conceptual classifications mapped out in tabular form, and I look forward to seeing the table populated. My slightly heretical view on this matter (which doesn't undermine the value of what you are doing at all) is that you are likely to find quite quickly that these approaches are actually responding to different things. I believe that's because it doesn't really make sense to think of the meta-crisis as singular (even as a singular higher order representation of multiple phenomena) because meta means so many things (alas, one more now due to Facebook becoming Meta, which risks supplanting the meaning of the others). This is not merely a pedantic point, but directly shapes our perception of how we should act and what a good vision(s) of the future might look like. It is true that all the problems are really one underlying problem, but it's *also* at least equally true that the one underlying problem is many problems. I am a pragmatist on such matters, so I'm arguing here not about underlying (ontological) reality but the efficacy of our epistemic tools to grapple with it and act with optimal discernment. In this respect, I came to the view that it's useful to distinguish between the reckoning(pandemic), the emergency (ecological), the crisis (governance) and to recognise that they have their own kind of problem, prior to invoking anything meta. Only then, and depending on your patience and appetite, I think we can make sense of around ten distinct meta-crises or, perhaps wiser, we can cluster them into four clusters with distinct punctuation as a way of showing their same-but-different nature. It's another conversation entirely, but for those who are interested, there is a glimpse in the table here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__systems-2Dsouls-2Dsociety.com_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2021_02_Tasting-2Dthe-2DPickle-2DTable.jpg&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=E-VjBap0M2pwmtSsasn2xJsb9AJswoARW6JMsL062-4&s=clrln8mtFGaJ23uQpl7QBysqGmi11bCa2PH5K08kee8&e=>, and the full story is outlined in the attached essay. I believe grasping that range of perspectives and experiencing them in your own life is what it means to 'taste the pickle'. All the best, Jonathan. On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 07:52, Lene Rachel Andersen <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ________________________________ Hi Brandon, Excellent! How about folk-bildung 3.0 as we are working on it in the Global Bildung Network & Nordic Bildung: empowering everybody through bildung to act and take sustainable action where they are? The formal political systems also ought to be there; they may not live up to our expectations, but if we want clean water in the pipes, modern medicine, food for 8 billion people, safe transportation, and solid science to back decisions, there also needs to be institutions and political fora with which to collaborate. / Lene On 29-11-2021 08:13, Brandon Norgaard wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ________________________________ Hello everyone, I sent a message to this list a few days ago about how we might create a table comparing the different approaches to addressing the meta-crisis. I figure that a lot of people and organizations agree that there are these several crises that are interdependent and interrelated (ecological, political, socio-cultural, economic, educational, meaning, etc.) but there are divergent opinions about what to do. I still haven’t heard anyone clearly define this “dark renaissance” notion, but I took a stab at defining it here based on what I remember Bard saying a few months ago. I’m intending this to be a conversation starter. I figure several of you guys could improve upon what I have here. Some of this might even be just plainly wrong. Let me know what you think: Approach to Addressing the Meta-Crisis Proponents Notes Rational Optimistic Enlightenment We need a more full embrace and more widespread adoption throughout the world of what already has been shown to work, which are the values and psycho-technologies of the Age of Enlightenment, such as rationality, science, progress, skepticism, liberty, fraternity, equality, and progress and getting away from ignorance, dogmatism, authority, tradition, superstition, and prejudice. Postmodernism and critical theory have little or nothing of value to offer and are only diversions and roadblocks. Steven Pinker This is probably just a newer version of Enlightenment 1.0, so we might call it Enlightenment 1.5 or something Enlightenment 2.0 We need to address the "Enlightenment Gap", which the first enlightenment never solved and which Enlightenment 1.5 doesn’t solve either. This involves embracing enlightenment rationalism and postmodern critique, coming up with a coherent naturalistic ontology and more clear definitions for scientific terms that are taken for granted. This also involves new paradigms and new methodologies that embrace inner development integrated with science. Gregg Henriques Conscious Evolution We can become mindful of the dynamics of the fundamental force of evolution and the relation to consciousness and this will awaken our collective capacity to overcome our challenges and create a better future. In socio-political terms, this hasn't been fully developed, despite Wilber claiming to have a "theory of everything" 20 years ago, since some of this is the subject of his forthcoming 3rd book in the Kosmos Trilogy. Ken Wilber Dark Renaissance Things will go dark almost inevitably, meaning that society will break down and a new dark age will result. But some of us will be able to create new aesthetic movements to get things through in order to plant the seeds for an eventual rebirth, and some people are already working on this. Alexander Bard Techno-Optimistic Technological advancements will save humanity and will save our planet. Next-generation innovations will heroically avert any and all calamities. Humanity's best days are ahead because of the power of technology and innovation. Elon Musk Meta-Sensemaking We really need to greatly improve our sensemaking amid the panoptic bombardment of information and ever-shifting technology. Mark Stahlman via Marshall McLuhan Ecology of Mind We can use our understanding of ecology in conjunction with warm data and the nuances and complexities of various aspects of life to help us intuitively make better choices. Nora Bateson Revolutionary Anti-Capitalistic We need to overthrow the capitalist bourgeoisie before they destroy the world with their unquenchable greed. Doctrinaire Marxists Holistic Back-to-Nature We need to re-discover our indigenous roots and live in harmony with nature, which will involve much less consumption and a dramatic decrease in industrialization. Doomer Defeatist There is no way to head off disaster so the best you can do is to save yourself and your family and maybe the members of the ethnic group that you identify with. 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