The World After World War Two

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All civilizations collapse in a way that is based on generally self terminating dynamics. Even when they were overtaken by armies, oftentimes there were armies that were smaller than ones they had defended against successfully at earlier peaks of their adaptive capacity. So catastrophic risk has been a real thing, it's just been local. And it wasn't till world war two that we had enough technological power that catastrophic risk became a global possibility for the first time ever.

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.