How we think about learning, cohesion, time, youth, aliveness, nature, and value is being upended. The legacy frameworks that have defined these core human conditions are giving way to new, emerging narratives.

We live in a time in which we are being told that the main things of value are the things of science and the things of technology. Our lives are being compressed into this technological reality. But it is worth remembering the many-sidedness of being human. Great evil befalls us when we restrict ourselves to just one side of our being.

This has led some to feel that the moment of opportunity for a new story has passed, that the portal has closed. I don’t agree with that. The Consumer Story is fundamentally broken. The trigger might be this pandemic or another, the onset of the climate emergency or the next banking collapse, surges in energy from Black Lives Matter or Extinction R

We need to see ourselves as part of a symbiotic, greater whole and start planning for a “long now” that looks deep into the future. This means changing the storytelling formula […] so that the main character is no longer the human but instead our planet.