I feel this. The revealing has happened, the cracks in the edifice of civilisation are visible, and the collapse is not just theoretical, it is lived. The hallmarks of civilisational collapse are very present and felt.
Arnold Toynbee talked of internal decay and where the positive deviants and creative minority loses it's ability to respond appropriately to the challenges. Those holding the current power losing touch with the needs of the people and the biosphere we all rely upon on this pale blue dot. Likewise Carrol Quigley alludes to civilisations growing through an instrument of expansion. Being a way of organising society that enables further growth. But, when these instruments become institutionalised (i.e. rigid, serving elites instead of the broader society), civilisations stagnate and decline. These are all present, playing out over some time and accelerating in cascades.
Ian McGilchrist’s core arguments are from the left-hemispheric dominance in thinking and being styles. We might also look to the work of Adrienne Maree brown’s Emergent Strategy which is all about how we organise in ways that mirror nature, rather than trying to force outdated models of control. Ginie Servant-Miklos, in the recently released Pedagogies of Collapse, points to an education and learning paradigm that prepares people not for sustaining the status quo, but for living through its end. This is the hospicing of modernity Vanessa Andreotti talks about in her book. So many good references to shift... many in the Finding Nature community might know of these... and more...
So what do we do? How do we be, together, through this?
The challenge now is not just to analyse but to be and to act in ways that are aligned with life, with the patterns of renewal, with the possibilities that emerge from the ruins.
Hospice the old. Midwife the new. Learn together. Stay human. Stay in circle. Keep weaving. 💜
I feel this. The revealing has happened, the cracks in the edifice of civilisation are visible, and the collapse is not just theoretical, it is lived. The hallmarks of civilisational collapse are very present and felt.
Arnold Toynbee talked of internal decay and where the positive deviants and creative minority loses it's ability to respond appropriately to the challenges. Those holding the current power losing touch with the needs of the people and the biosphere we all rely upon on this pale blue dot. Likewise Carrol Quigley alludes to civilisations growing through an instrument of expansion. Being a way of organising society that enables further growth. But, when these instruments become institutionalised (i.e. rigid, serving elites instead of the broader society), civilisations stagnate and decline. These are all present, playing out over some time and accelerating in cascades.
Ian McGilchrist’s core arguments are from the left-hemispheric dominance in thinking and being styles. We might also look to the work of Adrienne Maree brown’s Emergent Strategy which is all about how we organise in ways that mirror nature, rather than trying to force outdated models of control. Ginie Servant-Miklos, in the recently released Pedagogies of Collapse, points to an education and learning paradigm that prepares people not for sustaining the status quo, but for living through its end. This is the hospicing of modernity Vanessa Andreotti talks about in her book. So many good references to shift... many in the Finding Nature community might know of these... and more...
So what do we do? How do we be, together, through this?
The challenge now is not just to analyse but to be and to act in ways that are aligned with life, with the patterns of renewal, with the possibilities that emerge from the ruins.
Hospice the old. Midwife the new. Learn together. Stay human. Stay in circle. Keep weaving. 💜