We Need New Social Systems

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We live in a system at that is working the way it does. A if you're saying that we can't use those things because they're not adequate, or they won't help us solve those probles, we need to have new social systems. Maybe you could give us some hope about why that might be feasible, instead of feeling impossible. Because this is actually precedented our history. When new new technologies show up and a new social stems emerge to make room for those technologies functioning, well, you cannot briefly touch them but i think it's important to give listeners a few concrete examples yet.

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.