Rufus Pollock

Rufus Pollock, entrepreneur, activist, Zen practitioner, and founder of Life Itself and the Open Knowledge Foundation, explores the wisdom gap and a vision for a Second Renaissance. He compares today’s sense-making collapse to the printing-press era. Topics include wisdom’s elements, culture as scaffolding, conscious co-living experiments, worldviews vs modernity, and AI as a multipolar-trap case study.

Rufus Pollock, founder of Open Knowledge, and Sylvie Barbier, a French-Taiwanese performance artist, dive into the concept of a 'Second Renaissance.' They discuss how art can transform communities and the necessity of cultural activism during a meta-crisis. The duo envisions a new artistic manifesto that intertwines art with spirituality for emotional and societal healing. They also explore the evolution of storytelling, emphasizing modern narratives' relevance to contemporary issues like care and environmental consciousness, advocating for collective action and community building.

In this episode of our Making Sense of #Crypto and #Web3 series, Rufus Pollock is joined by activist, journalist and author Cory Doctorow. Cory outlines the problems he sees within the web3 space; economic, technological, and ethical.You can learn more about Cory and his work here:https://pluralistic.net/https://doctorow.medium.com/To learn more about our Making Sense of Web3 series visit https://web3.lifeitself.us/ Get full access to Life Itself at news.lifeitself.org/subscribe