I’m coming in with a cleaner-adjacent perspective.
I have many friends who espouse many of these ideas. They talk about systems level change. They talk about the challenge of imagining anything outside of the current paradigm. They talk about non-zero sum approaches, they talk about moving beyond competition. They talk about economic growth being a poor measure of utility.
They don’t call themselves “metacrisis” people, though, and they don’t see their enemy as “modernity”.
They call themselves anarchists and they see capitalism as the enemy.
That sounds like I’m putting your argument down—I’m not. Anarchism is poorly defined and so often misunderstood and I don’t think it actually has the answers.
But I don’t think the concept of the metacrisis is preparadigmatic—I think so many of concepts are there within the anarchists, anticapitalists, post modernists or critical theorists. And at the same time many of the concepts and the challenges are also there in the underpinnings of populism and authoritarianism.
As far as I can see, the metacrisis an issue of systems of power which do not deliver optimal outcomes. This is by no means a preparadigmatic problem. It’s not a problem we’ve solved, but let’s not pretend it’s a new concept.
This is well written and engaging, thank you.
I’m coming in with a cleaner-adjacent perspective.
I have many friends who espouse many of these ideas. They talk about systems level change. They talk about the challenge of imagining anything outside of the current paradigm. They talk about non-zero sum approaches, they talk about moving beyond competition. They talk about economic growth being a poor measure of utility.
They don’t call themselves “metacrisis” people, though, and they don’t see their enemy as “modernity”.
They call themselves anarchists and they see capitalism as the enemy.
That sounds like I’m putting your argument down—I’m not. Anarchism is poorly defined and so often misunderstood and I don’t think it actually has the answers.
But I don’t think the concept of the metacrisis is preparadigmatic—I think so many of concepts are there within the anarchists, anticapitalists, post modernists or critical theorists. And at the same time many of the concepts and the challenges are also there in the underpinnings of populism and authoritarianism.
As far as I can see, the metacrisis an issue of systems of power which do not deliver optimal outcomes. This is by no means a preparadigmatic problem. It’s not a problem we’ve solved, but let’s not pretend it’s a new concept.