What we’re about
This group is an opportunity to build community and facilitate discussion involving the most important existential threats facing our civilization. This group is for anyone with a deep curiosity for truth in the service of life. It is for those that can live with uncertainty and find answers in their questions. It is for generalists, or those that simply maintain a student's mentality through life. This group is for you, if you choose it.
Whether you frame it as the metacrisis, breaching planetary boundaries, overshoot, collapse, limits to growth, the omnicrisis, etc... there are systems dynamics weaving together every predicament that our species is mired in. These upstream causes can be difficult to put into words and discuss in a manner that is acceptable to "Business As Usual" and the status quo. This group aims to be a place where these thoughts can be given voice in a space with no judgement, violence, or professional repercussions. A group where many have already grieved for what could have been. They can accept reality for what it is while still fighting for civilizational harm reduction. This is for those who know themselves enough to listen and give space to others when important concepts and thoughts are shared. This group is oriented around the most important conversation of our time. It is for those invested in adding to that conversation and living a more meaningful life through its discourse.
This group has two primary goals:
- To provide a safe outlet for those unable to talk about these existential issues with those closest to them. To mitigate feelings of isolation and the frustration of intellectual solitude common in those pondering these topics day in and day out.
- To provide soft education to those that can intuit the wrong in the world and sense the trajectory of our species. To gently provide a framework of understanding for what is coming without providing any of the absolute certainties that humans crave.
This group is NOT:
- Certified counseling/therapy
- An outlet for your anger
- Peddling solutions to these existential threats
- A place to put your intellect on display to satisfy that little boy inside who never received enough attention
- Pushing religious beliefs
- Explicitly spiritual, although many spiritual experiences can be possible when discussing the nature of reality
- Political in any way, shape, or form
- For those suffering from debilitating depression, or those who might spiral into dysfunction and self harm if exposed to information that we were not evolutionarily designed to hold onto
I, Brian, am not a counselor or a therapist. I am a chemical engineer by education, slowly accelerating my lifetime transition into a patchwork generalist. I hope to meet others who have walked their own paths aligning facts to deeper truths in the service of life. Let's Meetup.
