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“If we humans fail to form a good community with each other—how can we expect to guarantee each other’s security and survival in a dignified way? If self-esteem and recognition are too unequally distributed among us—how would we want to enter into communities with one another? And if we lack opportunities for meaningful and creative lives—how can we have enough abundance of will to compassionately engage in democracy and the common good? The listening society thus cultivates our collective intelligence. That collective intelligence is in turn the strongest guarantor of both strong, deep welfare state and a healthy, competitive market …

“Think of all the endless attempts to read Putin’s mind. His intentions, his calculations, his emotions, his spirituality, you name it. He feeds on our attempts to ‘understand’ him because our inability to do so only proves his sovereignty. For him, to be unpredictable is the point, the end in itself. And if we actually ‘understand’ Putin, it means that we have settled into the same imperialist worldview where people can claim security guarantees on the merit of military musculature. This is why, in ethical terms, a big portion of infamy must go to the so-called Putinverstehers (German portmanteau for …

“We shouldn’t let Putin define Russia’s security interests because the only interest of his regime is to stop democracy. “What threatened Putin was not NATO expansion, but the democracy expansion”. We have to understand that long before the talk of ‘national interests’ and ‘spheres of influence’ we’ve already walked the walk of appeasing the people who can’t let go of their power and use the talk of ‘national interest’ as a guarantee of their personal security—which for them means forever staying in power. Putinverstehers perpetuate the idea of Russian innocence because it was left without a choice—but to accept this …

A hot and tired Emil Ejner Friis of Metamoderna was interviewed by Artem Zen on his podcast show Elevating Consciousness. The conversation didn’t go as planned, but Emil and Artem seem to have had a blast in each others company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDYchmTMl-8Emil Ejner Friis – Metamodern Matters | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #14www.youtube.comEmil Ejner Friis is a theory artist, wordsmith, and author. He has spent the last ten years trying to figure out how to create a listening society, a kinder …

“After a merger with the criminal underworld, siloviki faced two problems. The old problem was that their Communist Empire couldn’t match the power of the capitalist NATO. The new problem was that they couldn’t own property. But now they saw a way to kill two birds with one stone. The solution was to conduct such a transition of the USSR to market capitalism in which the KGB men would simultaneously preserve power to take on the West and make lots of money for themselves. ‘Unlike the Communists, the new generation of siloviki… declared themselves in favour of the market. But …

This is Denys Bakirov, 27. He is a lecturer at the University of Kharkiv in Ukraine who currently works as a researcher at Metamoderna. When war broke out on February 24th, his village north of Kharkiv right on the border with Russia was occupied by the Russian Army. Denys was forcefully deported from Ukraine to Russia. There he was interrogated by the FSB. Later, he managed to escape from Russia and now lives in Sweden. Denys has an impressive in-depth understanding of Russian society and has been following the political developments in Russia for many years. He has written a …

Last week, Daniel Görtz of Metamoderna gave a speech at the Elevate Festival in Austria where he was invited as a keynote speaker. The main questions touched upon were: – How can we create better processes for personal development? – How can politics be adjusted to an increasingly complex world? – What is the unique role of humanity in the ecosystems of nature? You can see the recording by clicking the link below. https://elevate.at/en/mediaarchive/event/e22listeningsociety/Daniel Görtz / Hanzi Freinacht – The Listening Societyelevate.atThe metamodern society of the future is a listening society; a society more sensitive to the inner dimensions of human …

“Solarpunk can do what merely intellectual arguments of better governance, of democracy, even of ecological collapse and the natural sciences, cannot: entice the average person, in particular, the established and new middle classes from across the world. If this potential is not tapped into in liberal and democratic societies, wide swathes of global populations will likely begin to look towards the paternalist and authoritarian powers that are already beginning to cast themselves as furnishers of solarpunk spaces and lifestyles (see previous article). As authoritarianism will seem more appealing, democracy will continue to recede across the world and islands of “gated …

Never managed to plough through Nordic Ideology? Does reading hurt your eyes? Don’t despair, Nordic Ideology is now available as audio book. Thanks to the help and financial support of our friend, Aurora Quinn-Elmore, both of Hanzi’s books are now available in audio format to be downloaded and listened to anywhere you please. Aurora Quinn-Elmore is a fan of Hanzi’s work and executive produced the audiobook as a labor of love. Professionally she is on a mission to expand legal access and speed adoption of psychedelic therapies shaped by the wisdom and insights of the deeply rooted psychedelic guide community. …

“Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks from technology…). We need more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering” or “save the animals” as discussed in one of my previous articles) or even the search for truth (“the mysteries of the universe, as revealed by science, in humanity’s greatest quest…”). We also need an aesthetic longing that calls us: a sense of beauty, of good taste, of inspiration, of creativity. The Nazis …