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For more on the metacrisis, please click on the link for an intro, and see the March 20, 2024, and June 26, 2024 Healing America’s Narratives editions. Note that this will require a bit of effort. Daniel Schmactenberger, among others, uses the term “metacrisis” to refer to the cascading effects of multiple global crises; the “multipolar traps” of shortsighted approaches to problem solving that seem to alleviate or resolve one crisis but that exacerbate or create others; and the perverse incentives that motivate people, corporations, and nations to continue to “play the dying game” that’s destroying the planet—a planet that managed to produce about half a billion humans in about 4.6 billion years up the the Industrial Revolution; then quadrupled that number in the next approximately 200 years to about 2 billion at the end of World War II; then quadrupled that number again in about 75 years to about 8 billion humans in 2020. Much pollution, species extinction, resource depletion, and resource inequity accompanies this not quite 300-year 8x population growth and industrialization. Again, we’ll pay more attention to the details of the above in coming weeks and months.
Pollsters, statisticians, and others take deep dives into which groups (ethnic/gender/age/ religion, etc.) do and do not vote. Our concern here is on entry-level democratic participation, regardless of identity.
While Donald Trump received more votes from African Americans in 2024 than he did in 2024, that does not contradict the larger point of Republican attempts to exclude voters.
Anne Nelson, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, (Bloomsbury, 2019), 12-15.
Ibid., 232. For more detail on Weyrich, Robison, Carson, and Trump, see the May 29, 2024 newsletter. For a larger context, read Nelson.
Carol Gilligan, In a Human Voice, (Polity, 2023), 105.
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