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Excellent overview! On p. 11 where you bring up the myth of progress and its relation to technology, I have found the following resource invaluable, and it might be considered as a reference for future versions: Development in Progress by The Consilience Project (consilienceproject.org/…)
As you know I’ve attempted my own breakdown, with …
Excellent overview! On p. 11 where you bring up the myth of progress and its relation to technology, I have found the following resource invaluable, and it might be considered as a reference for future versions: Development in Progress by The Consilience Project (https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/)
As you know I’ve attempted my own breakdown, with similarities to yours, in a couple of essays (particularly https://tmfow.substack.com/p/the-metacrisis-analysis and https://tmfow.substack.com/p/merchants-of-belief-purveyors-of). These might provide additional further reading, and/or be sources for some more references. Again, excellent whitepaper!
Good points and links - I agree Consilience piece is excellent. 👏
My colleague Liam also explored the "myth of progress" quite extensively in our white paper (and then book): Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the Shadows of the Enlightenment (one of the shadows being "progress"): https://lifeitself.org/collective-wisdom
> As you know I’ve attempted my own breakdown, with similarities to yours, in a couple of essays (particularly https://tmfow.substack.com/p/the-metacrisis-analysis and https://tmfow.substack.com/p/merchants-of-belief-purveyors-of). These might provide additional further reading, and/or be sources for some more references. Again, excellent whitepaper!
These are great and i would also emphasize this paper is still in a "for comment" stage so any suggestions for amendments or improvements are warmly welcome. 🙏
Multi-polar traps/race-to-the-bottom dynamics could perhaps be highlighted under the climate breakdown case study as well.
How the worldview of modernity, or worldviews in general, is normalized and promulgated through structures of upbringing, education and media might also be worth mentioning explicitly, though these are of course social and political structures (p 8)
Paradigm shifts usually occur from radically new ‘directions’, and not from within the box, which could be added as an observation in the discussion of paradigms, referencing Kuhn and/or Feyerabend.
Jevon’s paradox/rebound effect might bear mentioning in the context of industry, growth, technological advancement etc.
I’ll re-read next week and see if I can come upt with additional amendments or suggestions. Apologies if any of these are covered and I have overlooked them!