If you want an open society where everyone gets to participate in choice making, then everybody has to do a good job of sense making. If you want anything like a democratic or open society, the minimum required investment is authentic deep informedness about the nature of the issues. I don't know that many people would really disagree with it, if the logic was presented. And then to still never get certain, because there's always more stuff that i don't even know that that in to relti ou to reject certainty and sit with uncertainty and sit side of your group. Isn't that a rare human that can do that? I'm statistically rare.
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In Part 3 of their series, Schmachtenberger and Hagens explore metanarratives. Why are they threatening to various sections of society?
Further, Schmachtenberger helps us understand how we can take in the systemic metacrisis facing humanity in ways that grant us agency, rather than despair.
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
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