Can We Confirm We Are in Collapse?
Can We Confirm We Are in Collapse?
ernestopvanpeborgh.substack.com
Can We Confirm We Are in Collapse?
[...]this isn’t a pile-up of isolated crises. This is a metacrisis — a systemic failure driven by the logic that underpins our civilization. It’s not just that our tools are malfunctioning — it’s that our operating system is obsolete.
I like the term metacrisis. That really connects the dots between all the different systems feeding into each other.
I've heard the term polycrisis, but yeah, I think it's important to connect the dots to understand what's happening.
I think polycrisis is what John Bellamy Foster or James O'Connor use in their books. It makes perfect sense to me as someone who's already an eco-Marxist but it seems more susceptible to recuperation than metacrisis. You can try to address many crises at once within the existing system, but it's the system and its interdependent sub-systems causing those. Nothing but external critical analysis actually addresses those roots. Meta is a hard anti-capitalist critique from outside of the system.