The Liminal Learning Portal

So what happens to people who are far-from-average-in-multiple-ways is that they gain some pretty unique insight into the frailty and arbitrariness of social hierarchies: every now and then people notice your strong sides, and assume you’re walking around in God mode, and every so often they notice your weak side and write you off as far, far below them. It’s confusing for everyone involved, not at least for the neurodivergent person herself. It usually takes years and years to settle on a path in life and set nuanced and reasonable expectations upon life, as one gets so wildly conflicting messages …

ARCwww.arc.voyageThe Archdisciplinary Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit organization consisting of independent and academic scholars who have created and/or work between big picture frameworks that synthesize everything humanity has learned about ourselves and the universe, and we apply that knowledge for the gre

The full conversation between Jared Bauer and Daniel (follow-up to the shorter video I posted the other day). Jordan Peterson and Metamodernism – an Interview with Daniel Görtz of Metamodernawww.youtube.com

Didn’t listen to this, but read the book — and I liked it.Metamodern Spirituality | The Future of Theory (w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm)www.youtube.comJason Ānanda Josephson Storm is an historian and philosopher, Professor of Religion and Chair of Science & Technology Studies at Williams College. He receive…

“We should see through the delusion of certainty, the illusion of our own chosenness, the mirage that our particular perspective just happens to be the most universal one.”BURN YOUR MAPS — CONSCIOUS EVOLUTIONwww.consciousevolution.co.ukIn our days, when we are experiencing what some have called a “sensemaking crisis”, we collectively struggle to align our different maps of the world.

Spiritual Bungee-Jumpingmedium.comJumping off the edge of your “maps of meaning” takes a sense of inner safety

Just as she/he is over-exposed to downright debauchery, the child of today is equally exposed to an ethics too high-minded, abstract, and confusing for her/his developmental psychology to fathom and genuinely embody. At least this will be the tragic case for the vast majority of children growing up today: They will oscillate between trying to identify with these higher values and force themselves to feel and to think what is beyond their cognitive scope and emotional capacity, often pretending to feel, or posturing to seem good enough — and rebelling against these same values in a reactionary rage that will …

Perhaps the question is not one of “class against class”, nor “class or nationality”, nor even “are class differences justified” — but, rather: How can class relations be optimized for human thriving? The question sounds heretical, even to their own writer. It sounds callous, even cruel, and yet strangely naïve at the same time. To the Modern mind, class was either the fundamental source of ills in society (socialism), a necessary evil (liberalism), or even a strange boon as differences of wealth and power seem necessary for the flowering of arts, palaces, cathedrals, and other aesthetic wonders of civilization (conservatism: …

“It stands to reason — and viscerally feel — that Russia is an unlawful aggressor in this situation. But to seek to understand Russia (and, in the longer run, even to accept and forgive) is not to condone the actions of its government. For citizens around the world, both of these traps must be avoided: A. relativizing and condoning a criminal war of aggression, and B. falling into a clichéd, black-and-white narrative that hinders productive measures and responses because there is no real understanding. The better analysts, leaders, and the public understand the Russian side of the matter (not, note, …

Chris Sudlik argues for a materialist (Marxist) update of metamodernism — old wine in New Left bottles, or a needed regrounding and revitalization? https://longstache.substack.com/p/the-metamodern-false-start?fbclid=IwAR2Fx-LVmyZB7_Ie9Ow_YnK-fCqDRIpEb0z0HcbemwT54bVOChT0IYyoMvcThe Metamodern False Startlongstache.substack.comif you’re not familiar with metamodernism you might want to skip this one