May 4, 2011 Osama bin Laden did not just attack the American people or the American economy, he attacked the American subconscious. Even as we can breathe a sigh of relief that justice has been served and this monster has been finally eliminated from our world, the fabric of our shared American mythos remains as tattered as ever.
World Affairs
If the world feels chaotic, fractured, or out of control, you’re not alone. Robb Smith calls our era the Transformation Age—a time of geopolitical, economic, and ecological upheaval. In this category, you’ll explore the global Metacrisis and trace the deep causal structures behind these challenges: from social and environmental systems to interiority, meaning-making, and consciousness itself. As Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and Nicholas Hedlund note, integrative metatheories like Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism are the only tools that give us a framework for understanding and confronting this vast web of interconnected, wicked problems. Let’s make sense of it together.
