The conditions for a functional society are no longer there
The information paradox We are living in a society which finds itself in a death spiral (Schippers et al, 2023) largely due to false perception (¬p)(Capra, Fritjof 1991). People believe they can control complexity, or complex systems such as society, the weather, climate, geopolitics, trade or business. The best definition for society I find is the one in Dutch, ‘samenleving’ which means ‘living together’, equivalent to Symbiosis, living together of different species with the purpose to evolve’(Margulis, Lynn1998 People do not seem to understand how nature and reality function. They have been taught in school that nature is competitive, and that survival of the fittest is key, but that is an outdated, Cartesian and destructive perception. A false perception (¬p) carries a worldview of negative social interdependence (Johnson, Johnson, 2007) in which people believe that personal competitive advantage can only be achieved if others can’t and that lying or cheating therefore is naturally