We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our way of living is already passing into history.
The concept of liminality applied as a term for thinking about modern societies is connected to the study of theatre and performance. The liminal experiences of tribal cultures – in which ritual is a collective process for navigating moments of change – are different from the liminoid experiences available in modern societies, which resemble the liminal, but are choices we opt into as individuals, like a night out at the theatre. This distinction comes with a suggestion that true liminality, the collective entry into the liminal, is not available within a complex industrial society.
Perhaps this has been true. The consequences of that very complex industrial society are now bringing us to a point where we get reacquainted with true liminality. We begin to recognise that we now face a crisis which has no outside. The planetary scale of our predicament makes it as much a collective experience as anything faced by the tribal cultures.~
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
—Clay Shirky
collapsology links
- Dark Mountain Manifesto
- Unearthed
- Policymakers
- Effective Altruism Forum
- Deep Adaptation
- Energy Slaves
- Dark Ecology
Violence is the base governing system for debt.
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