Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci The Anthropologist Predicting Society's Collapse - Jitske Kramer
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Apr 9, 2026 Jitske Kramer, corporate anthropologist and author who studies how people shape culture, talks liminality, tricksters, and the messy middle of change. She explores cultural disruption, lessons from non-Western traditions, and how difficult conversations and rituals can steer societies through turbulence.
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Liminality Explains Today's Cultural Disorientation
- Liminal phases happen when the old no longer is and the new is not yet born, creating cultural disorientation.
- Jitske Kramer frames our current global turbulence as liminality driven by disrupted narratives across societies and organizations.
Trickster Energy Drives Disruption But Needs Limits
- Trickster is an amoral archetypal energy that destabilizes boundaries and prompts change but must be checked by communal leadership.
- Kramer uses myths (Pinocchio, Loki, Anansi) to show tricksters are necessary yet dangerous when centralized in power.
Growth Narratives Hide Basic Human Needs
- Western efficiency and growth narratives obscure humans' need for storytelling, reciprocity, and connection.
- Kramer warns that treating 'human-centric' as financially conditional erases the deeper social reciprocity that sustains cultures.
