Jeremy Lent | What Could Possibly Go Right?

#47 Jeremy Lent: Reweaving the Patterns of Meaning in Our Civilization

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Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. He is the Founder of the Liology Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth.

His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on connectedness that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.

He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- The increasing recognition of our shared humanity and connection, “even in the face of the forces of separation that are potentially driving us to destruction”.

- The potential of the Internet to shift human consciousness and provide “massive epic possibilities that we haven't even begun to even conceptualize”.

- The fear underpinning polarization and the reminder that white supremacy “doesn't just oppress the people who are not white as a result, but oppresses the white people who think that they're maintaining their privilege... (who) have to always stay on the defensive and tired and worried about losing, rather than actually sharing a space with others, where it's not a zero sum game.”

- The analogy of unraveling the tightly woven rug of our society and structures, to reweave into a better, resilient pattern of meaning.

- The benefits of a “shift away from a growth-oriented wealth-accumulating world” to “an ecological civilization... founded on connectivity, on the power of symbiosis between humans and non-human nature.”

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