Consequential Times When Everything falls Apart
Consequential Times They Are A Changing
✌️We are living through very Consequential Times !
The following is Inspired by the futurist Lawrence Douglas.
I think I want to be a “Professional Futurist”. How does one become a futurist?
FUTURIST. AKA a scenario planner, AKA foresight thinker…OR DOOMSAYER. Not the Utopian fantastical futurist.
What academic degree do I need to do that job?
Our World Your World
We “do the world” via our “World View” and solve problems via Heuristics.
MEANING; “Worldview is how you look at the world, how you think it operates, why things happen the way they do, what your purpose is. …
For example: A worldview of atheism, which is a belief that God does not exist, explains the creation of the universe and of life as randomness acting over a very long time.
Good-Enough Solutions ???
Heuristics are a problem-solving method that uses shortcuts to produce good-enough solutions given a limited time frame or deadline.
Heuristics are a flexibility technique for quick decisions, particularly when working with complex data.
Decisions made using an heuristic approach may not necessarily be optimal”.
However, in today’s world heuristics “get us through”.
Systems & Sub-Systems
We have agreed upon heuristics at the community, societal level AND at the level of subsystems.
Subsystems such as healthcare; education and BEHAVIORAL HEALTH .
We have institutions that exist within these systems and sub-systems.
They operate via mutually agreed upon heuristics as well. Within the same domain; “they all do the same thing”. Use the same model.
Modus Operandi For These Consequential Times
Our systems operate with an underlying unspoken agreement that; “This is the best way to do things”.
Most people are not even aware what the heuristics are and they just “do life day to day”.
BUT THEN… BOOM….BOOM and then more boom….
A global pandemic, and the co-occurring mental health / SUD crisis, comes along and the system is laid bare.
The severe limitations are revealed and the fragile nature of things is obvious.
The system and our institutions are brittle. And everything falls apart. 🙏🙏
