Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Multipolar Trap
If we look at China's taking of Tibet or colonialist taking of Native American territories via genocide in the founding of the US it wasn't based on who the more ethical actor was. What wins in the short term forces everybody to race towards that thing even if everyone racing towards that thing makes an entire system self-terminate in the long term. That's what we call the multipolar trap and you could define it as a property of the super organism to exploit all the energy in its environment and then hit a cliff. It seems like they're winning at a very short term game but they are actually then killing the host that they depend upon.
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