THE
META-CRISIS
The world doesn't starve for lack of resources.
It starves for lack of signal.
We are mining in the wrong direction.
We are inches from the solution, but digging miles in the wrong direction because we lack a shared map.
White agents (non-profits) frantically treating individual cell failures (red).
No systemic cure detected.
Treating the Symptom,
Ignoring the Cure.
Every existing non-profit is attempting to treat a dis-eased body's failures. We patch the wounds, we feed the symptoms, but the sickness remains.
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE
Who perpetuates the system if everyone hates it?
"Earth could be fair, and all men glad and wise. Instead we have prisons, smokestacks, asylums. What sphinx of cement and aluminum breaks open their skulls and eats up their imagination?"
— ALLEN GINSBERG
Malaclypse: "Everyone is hurting each other... nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!"
Goddess: "Oh. Well, then stop."
— PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
The answer is MOLOCH.
Not a demon, but a force. The God of Coordination Failure. The degree to which the system acts as an agent against our own interests.
The Only Way Out
To defeat a systemic failure, you need a systemic engine.