daniel (p) on how soon is now update

daniel pinchbeck on how soon is now update

via tweet [https://x.com/DanielPinchbeck/status/1858502968779169878]:

In my 2016 book How Soon Is Now, I offered a strategic and tactical action plan for transforming postmodern civilization by directly confronting the ecological emergency and building participatory, resilient, and regenerative systems to *heal human society and elevate consciousness..t I intend to update this book now to accommodate the social, ecological, philosophical, and political changes we have seen over the last eight years. One central idea is that social change will require a transition from physicalism or materialism to a new paradigm: Monistic idealism or panpsychism. (Links to everything discussed in comments)

*need means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

root of problem ness

monistic: a theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction or duality in some sphere, such as that between matter and mind, or God and the world.

thurman interconnectedness law et al

panpsychism: the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.

again.. need means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

Our current political situation looks bleak.

We don’t know what level of repression will be used against the domestic population in the US. I don’t know about you, but I can already sense the shift in the psychological ambience. It feels murkier.

.. concerns over immigration, declining quality of life, and, also, a reaction to the “meaning crisis,” the collapse of all values, that is an inevitable result of secular liberal humanism in its current, immature form.

One of the tendencies of our situation that I find most worrisome is the distortion of the information environment. This may intensify over the next years. Masses of people already fail to discern between evidence-based journalism and delusion. This could become much worse. I

makes no diff as long as all data is whalespeak.. need to try self-talk as data

I see a possible silver lining in the dark clouds, connected to what I explore in How Soon Is Now: *The truth is there was no way our society, under the old political system, could adapt fast enough to confront the ecological emergency. . t The system needed to break. Now it is breaking.

*deeper problem is that we think a solution is in adaptation ness.. rather than root of problem ness

we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. in an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8b legit free

ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8b legit free

From where we are now, we can still envision a path to a benevolent metamorphosis of post-industrial civilization. It could be that the current regression into authoritarianism is the necessary precondition for the emergence of a new societal paradigm, one that is truly participatory and regenerative. We are definitely in a time when “all bets are off,” when anything can happen. .t

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..

ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

need to try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness..

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

Of course, this also may not be in the cards: We may be descending into AI-augmented, surveillance-based “infinitely stable dictatorship” while our ecosystem collapses and power centralizes in fewer and fewer hands. Admittedly, this seems the most likely outcome. I am not being naive. I am simply noting that we can also envision the path to a very different, much better outcome. I think it is important that we point toward that, also, even as we acknowledge current feelings of fear, despair, and defeat. After all, the future remains an “unknown unknown.”

In this and future essays, I am going to offer a scaffold and outline for the transformative project we can undertake together…

‘in undisturbed ecosystem ..the avg individual.. left to its own devices.. behaves in ways that serve/stabilize the whole’ –dana meadows

we keep disturbing the ecosystem because we can’t seem to let go enough to see/try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

let’s try that

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