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Second Renaissance Core Beacon
[Lead-in/trailer] The great unwinding/crisis/unravelling aka “Cracks in the foundations”
Issues we have are foundational. Metaphor: innocuous crack in the wall on the 20th floor actually indicates fundamental problem in foundations => you need to move building.
good version of this story in Jeremy Lent
The first renaissance and the last great paradigm shift
Any system (and any paradigm i.e. complex onto-social system) goes through various stages:
Birth (spring)
Growth (summer)
Maturity (Autumn)
Decay/death (Winter)
Where are we in this evolution?
The last great transition: pre-modernity (medieval) to modernity
Medieval = Feudalism as social system, “Medieval or Catholocism” as cultural system
TODO: more here
What evidence is there we are in Autumn or Winter?
When did we enter growth and maturity? What evidence e.g. french revolution, american revolution etc
So where are we today?
So what can we do about it?
How are new paradigms born?
How was the last one born?
Religion the great taboo … and the essential ingredient in cultural evolution and social scaling in the past
Back to cracks in the wall: if your paradigm is dying you can’t really fix it … you need a new one.
Don’t make it wrong. Aka transcend and include.
Where are we? the great cycle of paradigms (or any complex system)
birth, growth, maturity, decacy/death.
Look at visible signs e.g. climate crisis, lack of political vision
So where are we today?
Don’t make modernity wrong (what you resist, persists)
… And we need to mourn it …
Darkness before dawn: last time round we had the black death … this time well you know it already (climate crisis, out of control tech, pandemics etc).
The great awakening and the second renaissance: a new dawn for a new civilization. Going from modernity to whatever comes next.
[Optional] How to get involved
“Fish in water” aka Intro to Paradigms. What are they? The water we swim in. Bigger ans: culture i.e. onto-social paradigm. Views and values plus socio-economic system.
Fish in water story
We live inside a cultural paradigm with a set of core views and values
What are some of them? [qu to reader]. Then examples e.g. quotes from Adam Smith, Declaration of Independence etc.
Examples of views/values that changed e.g. role of women or slavery
Slavery may be best example to use as so universal (rejected today) yet endorsed in past (cf Aristotle, Plato etc etc)
What are assumption we take for granted today? E.g. eating animals, equality, secularism, individuality etc
Epoch or historical paradigm vs your local culture (distinguishing what we mean by a culture or paradigm)
Appendix: about not everyone being at X norm right now. What is the leading paradigm in the world?
We are talking here at the level of historical or epochal paradigm