The Ultimate Depository the Power Must Be the People

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We want to think about the values, not the previous frames for them. If i have rights and I don't have responsibilities, there ends up being like tyranny and entitlement. So if i want the right to drive a car, the responsibility to do the driver's education is important. And we can see that some countries have less car accidents than others associated with better drivers education. We need to be able to hold those together. Of course, we want individual liberty, but we don't want individual liberty that gets to harm people and other things.

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.