Skills needed
I am not optimistic about the short-term future. The next ten or so years. I believe we humans have pushed the limits. We have gorged ourselves on excess, become bloated with arrogance, and clogged the lifeblood of our system with lies, corruption, greed and division.
The metaphorical massive heart attack is imminent. Life support is unlikely to be available for most.
A certain set of skills are going to be required. I do not see people developing these skills at all, sleepwalking into a nightmare. I do not see a world where what I had to look forward to is what our grandchildren will have.
Some skills are simple. How to make things, fix things, use your hands. Grow food. And be able to do all of these things without the internet. It might be wise to get started now. Take back your agency and get to fixing things and figuring it out.
How to create complementary currencies. Trade and exchange mechanisms. We teach this in Synergistic Accounting.
How to convene people and build action events at the local level. A governance system that enables both agency and community. Holding life as sacred as central. This is what the Syntropic Foundations Masterclass is about. The respectful coordination of diverse people.
How to calibrate emotional and reflexive behaviour. Self-development. Emotional intelligence. Resilience. Brave leadership. We cover some of this in the Dare to Care Workshop.
And through all of this, an ongoing daily investment in health care, physical strength development, mental, emotional and physical flexibility and fitness.
We can also consider scenarios. If the Internet goes down. What happens?
If another pandemic happens – one that makes COVID look like a sneeze – what happens? What did we learn from COVID, other than the rampant rise of conspiracy theories? Hopefully, something useful, including masking and isolating before we have clear data, is a smart thing to do, not just for self-survival but also to aim to support others’ survival.
One of the things I love most about historians is they help us understand that the crisis of humanity seems to cycle. Do we ever learn? Yet this crisis has some different elements. The widespread reliance now on the internet. Technology with the power to destroy everyone in the hands of anyone. A hollowing out of skills and emotional resilience needed to survive serious adversity.
As a lifetime endurance athlete and a single mother, I know something about digging deep and finding inner resources that you didn’t know you had until you pushed to the limit. Extreme conditions do that. They make us or break us.
I am invested in the Phoenix moment. Out of the ashes. Syntropic World is invested in having tools and resources available to replace the old corrupt one. This is our focus. Demonstrating now what is possible on the other side of the chasm.
Photo Taken December 4th 2024, Article written December 4th 2024
