About this conversation
Dennis Wittrock frames the third attractor through Daniel Schmachtenberger’s landscape metaphor: a narrow ridge between collapse and authoritarian control. He argues that belief in a third path is itself a precondition for reaching it, since attitude and daily behavior compound over time.
The conversation covers the multipolar trap as the generator function behind the metacrisis, and the limits of global institutions like the UN in regulating a globalized economy. It then turns to organizational design, where Wittrock draws on Holacracy and the “Work with Source” model to show how decentralized decision-making outperforms traditional hierarchies, and closes with the open question of what this means for political governance.
