How To Design Future Governance medium.com Three principles to guide governance design beyond modern society and liberal democracy
The authoritarian solarpunk-from-above movement may look fancy. It may be as seductive and feel as alive as a Nuremburg rally. But it is a forced beauty, a Disney-land aesthetics. It does not follow function, nor morality, nor the truth of the people who live there, nor of the planet and its other creatures. Emancipatory solarpunk
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CAPITAL: Something that creates a positive feedback loop which changes social relations so that power is accumulated for the person or organization to which the feedback loop is linked. (Full article on cultural capital in comments.)
To be aware of your emotion’s impact on the way you’re thinking is a personal development stage towards a metamodern mindset. Don’t bullshit yourself; become aware of your emotions. For example, if you react negatively towards certain words, you have an allergy. Let’s try a few out: Feminism, Capitalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Postmodernism, Profit, Religion, Efficiency,
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Cultures and ethnic identities can always be transformed, and they should be transformed to be the best versions of themselves, whenever this is possible without destabilizing people’s lives too much. Even if humans do need cultures, shared imaginaries, narratives, histories, customs, traditions and other vital aspects of Gemeinschaft—this does not mean that all current cultural
On The Stoa this Monday 12th, noon ET: On Metamodernism and Its Critics w/ Daniel Görtz “In this episode, Daniel Görtz of Metamoderna addresses key issues around metamodernism and stage theories of personal development. He covers: how the community around it needs to stand behind the basic norms of discourse, the five stages of understanding
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Is Nationalism Good, Bad, Ugly, Pathetic, or Glorious? medium.com A digest of the 20 ways academics have described and understood nationalism
https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/9-levels-of-freedom-higher-degrees-of-political-freedom-are-possible-9105cfcc55a0 9 Levels of Freedom: Higher Degrees of Political Freedom Are Possible medium.com On a freedom scale from 1 to 9, even the “best” countries of today would only score about a 5 for most of its citizens
Secular Karma, Spiritual Reason medium.com Is there such a thing as Karmic law? What goes around comes around, huh? Or does it? Everybody gets what they deserve in the end. Or do…
