Learning from Existainability
- the seven infinity stones of cultural wisdom
We are in the Anthropocene age, where human impact on the ecosystems of the planet are moving us beyond crucial, combined tipping points and calling for a radically new direction for our species. Will we be remembered as the first of the modern generations who came to realize that life could be cared for, and not only manipulated endlessly? The crises we go through, from global warming to mass extinction, are of our making, but they influence billions of other beings. Most of all, however, they express a human crisis, a point of no return. That is the Anthropocene.
The good thing is we do know a little about how to explore life-embracing and life-enhancing, rather than life-exploiting pathways. Like all living systems, we are children of the universe, born of the quintessential connections of immense complexity. Why would we not be able to connect deeper into that potential and start to reclaim life instead of the autopilot to suicide that seems to thrill our civilisation? The bad news is we forgot to listen to our powers, as we, bedazzled by exponentiality, drove deeper into debt-and-greed economics and narcissist politics.
Cultural wisdom is the driver of change that we need, now. Not because it holds the only key to a better future. But because of the exact…