The Inner Life of the Future: Governing with Collapse and Transformation In Mind

by Jonathon Rowson

Jonathan Rowson explores the inner life, mindsets and lenses that will help us to govern through collapse as we look into the future. He explores the metacrisis as a historically specific threat to truth, beauty, and goodness caused by our persistent misunderstanding, misvaluing, and misappropriating of reality. After exploring morality, politics, laws, more of the human in human rights, and current reckonings, he poses key governance questions like “how should transnational civil society coordinate to nurture cognitive and emotional abilities of our species in a way that might save civilization from itself?”.