# pluriverse > Pluriverse names an understanding of the world in which countless groups of people create and re-create their own distinctive cultural realities, each of which constitutes a world. > > – [[Free, Fair and Alive]] > This term is necessary because many contemporary crises stem from the belief that there is a One-World World, a kind of single Euro-modern reality. > > – [[Free, Fair and Alive]] > To say that the world is a pluriverse is to say that there is no single source of being (that is, to invoke a plural ontology) and that no knowledge system is inherently superior to others. > > – [[Free, Fair and Alive]] > A pluriverse is “a world in which many worlds fit,” as the [[Zapatistas]] say. > > – [[Free, Fair and Alive]] > This points to a conundrum: how can the different societies that constitute the human species accept that many worlds must coexist together on a single planet? > > – [[Free, Fair and Alive]] > a fractal federation of countless unique and yet connected worlds > > – [[Free, Fair and Alive]]