Mitochondria are the power centers of biological cells, tiny organelles that convert nutrients into usable energy, keeping the organism and life adaptive and alive.
In a similar way, the internal human traits and skills could be the mitochondria of a future cultural system for humans.
Each small, distributed, largely invisible, but absolutely essential, they could be the metabolic engines of resilience, regeneration, and a new coherence of how we relate to each other and to the natural world.
Also see Social Soil.