In this article, Eric Markowitz interviews RethinkX founders James Arbib and Tony Seba about their new book, which argues that society is transitioning from an extractive model to a new 'stellar' age characterized by solar energy, decentralization, and AI. They emphasize that this shift requires a fundamental reevaluation of how we think about economies and governance, proposing that our current models often fail because they are rooted in outdated extraction-based paradigms. The conversation highlights the need for holistic systems thinking to navigate this transformation and the emergence of various movements that signal the change.
Extraction shaped our minds. We evolved to think linearly, mechanistically, because that's what extraction rewarded. But now, holistic, systems thinking becomes valuable. Even our social sciences - economics, psychology, sociology - they were developed for humans in extraction. That's why they so often fail us now.
Consciousness movements, biohacking, decentralized communities - they're all pieces of this transition. But we still lack a unifying vision that ties them together.
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