Is It Time For Humanity To Evolve Its Capacity For Collaboration?

As it is ever increasingly the case these days, I noticed that as soon as I started contemplating the question of

“What if Our Crisis is a Birth?” and focussed my awareness on the bigger picture, Life started to respond.

It dropped a Medium article back into my feed from 2017, that captured my attention because I had deeply appreciated and resonated with the perspective it offered back then and I remembered reposting it.

The article was by Daniel Christian Wahl entitled:

“𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬”

There is so much in that article that feels apt to the time that we’re in right now, that it feels a worthy endeavor to reiterate some key pieces:

For one, as we’ve already been talking about, Wahl confirms that,

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪̲𝘴̲ ̲𝘢̲ ̲𝘤̲𝘰̲𝘳̲𝘦̲ ̲𝘱̲𝘢̲𝘵̲𝘵̲𝘦̲𝘳̲𝘯̲ ̲𝘪̲𝘯̲ ̲𝘵̲𝘩̲𝘦̲ ̲𝘦̲𝘷̲𝘰̲𝘭̲𝘶̲𝘵̲𝘪̲𝘰̲𝘯̲ ̲𝘰̲𝘧̲ ̲𝘭̲𝘪̲𝘧̲𝘦̲, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.”

Peter Corning, former president of the International Society for Systems Science and director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, emphasizes:

“𝐼𝑓 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒? 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑑 […] 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 ‘𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒,’ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙, 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒-𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡”.