[P2P-F] Fwd: Evolutionary Toolbox for the Great Transition

Fri Jul 19 00:39:30 CEST 2019

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Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:24 PM
Subject: Evolutionary Toolbox for the Great Transition
To: Michel <michel at p2pfoundation.net>

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July 2019

Dear Michel,

We are glad to announce that our new book *Switching off the autopilot: An
evolutionary toolbox for the Great Transition* is now also available in
ebook form as well as in a pdf with a single-page layout.

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This book is about the ecological crisis that threatens to collapse our
entire civilisation. It is about the crisis of liberal democracy unfolding
before our eyes. And it is about a new approach that aims to tackle both
crises.

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are some excerpts from the book:

“We are currently experiencing a continuous spiral of polarisation in our
societies. It is unlikely that we can successfully transform our whole
economic system to tackle the ecological crisis in the face of growing
opposition to this project by a significant segment of our societies.
Progressive civil society in the Western world is far from having
understood the dynamics that are at play in this process of polarisation
and what role they themselves play in this process. Everybody who supports
the Great Transition should also support ways to stop and reverse
polarisation.”

Tribalism is a deep-seated human drive. History shows how the right
circumstances can activate our genetic predispositions, put us into tribal
mode and make us capable of committing the worst atrocities. Culturally, we
need to develop much more awareness of the fact that the enemy is within
us. It is not some kind of outside group of bad people – it’s us. We need
to develop systems, institutions and a culture that prevent us from getting
into tribal mode. This requires first developing a good understanding of
the social mechanisms that make the situation likely. Preventing
significant segments in our societies from feeling threatened is a good
starting point.”

“A systemic approach is open-ended and looks at the world from diverse
perspectives. It is an open-minded and science- based attempt to understand
the system, its grievances, its potential causes and solutions.”

“Instead of dividing the world between bad and good people or seeing it
mainly as a result of structures of oppression created by the dominant
classes, activism would gain much from taking an evolutionary worldview. It
much better explains how we have arrived to where we are now. It explains
the ugly part of human history (domination and oppression), but it also
shows that hierarchy, competition and our groupish instincts have played a
positive role in creating the amazing civilisation that we have. Most
importantly, an evolutionary worldview will help us find better solutions
and strategies for our (intentional) cultural evolution. Nicholas
Christakis: ‘We should be humble in the face of temptations to engineer
society in opposition to our instincts.’ ”

“As an important first step to get out of the current mess, we the Western,
educated, industrialised, rich and democratic (WEIRD) people should indeed
realise that we are the WEIRD minority, globally speaking. We have to learn
to live alongside this majority of people who don’t fully share our
morality. Only from a position of respect will we be able to focus on what
unites us as citizens of this planet. Our fate depends on each other.”

“This book is presenting a preliminary set of ideas for how we should
approach the project of intentional cultural evolution for the Great
Transition. My impression is that we are still in an early stage of
developing the evolutionary toolbox for a successful transformation of our
societies. As a next step we need to set up processes with
multidisciplinary teams who have the capacity, skills and energy to get
involved in prototyping for intentional cultural evolution. In the spirit
of evolution, these teams would be seeding and supporting a pool of
cultural evolution experiments. The goal would be to design variation and
selection systems that will allow alternative institutions or
organisational forms to compete with each other.”
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