By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Feb 20
The Challenge of this Gateway Decade Prompted by the membership requirements of the Rally Point Alpha group on Facebook, I’ve just re-read Jordan Hall’s brilliant “Situational Assessment 2017 — the Trump Edition.” Supported by my experience of the years passed since its publication, I think of it as timelier than ever. If you haven’t yet read […]
The Challenge of this Gateway Decade Prompted by the membership requirements of the Rally Point Alpha group on Facebook, I’ve just re-read Jordan Hall’s brilliant “Situational Assessment 2017 — the Trump Edition.” Supported by my experience of the years passed since its publication, I think of it as timelier than ever. If you haven’t yet read […]
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Feb 20
The corporation that can live on for 100s or 1000s of years In a conversation on Facebook about Walkaway, one of my fave Doctorow novels, I’ve just read: “It would be quite difficult to make corporations immortal. Corporations exist while the value they are designed to generate is needed. If there’s not much more money to […]
The corporation that can live on for 100s or 1000s of years In a conversation on Facebook about Walkaway, one of my fave Doctorow novels, I’ve just read: “It would be quite difficult to make corporations immortal. Corporations exist while the value they are designed to generate is needed. If there’s not much more money to […]
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 29 Feb 20
Of all the ideas presented in my book The Listening Society, this is the most important one: The average effective value meme of a population is the single most important factor determining whether it is possible for a society to progress to a new stage of development or not. If you don’t get it, then you haven’t understood The Listening Society or its sequel Nordic Ideology. The following is a slightly edited extract from Hanzi Freinacht’s book ‘Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two’. This is the second book in a series on metamodern thought, a work of …
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Of all the ideas presented in my book The Listening Society, this is the most important one: The average effective value meme of a population is the single most important factor determining whether it is possible for a society to progress to a new stage of development or not. If you don’t get it, then you haven’t understood The Listening …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Feb 20
In larger and more complex societies, people seem to develop more individualized personalities, values and worldviews, not less. Or to be more specific and analytically correct, we could say that people in more complex societies develop more dividualized selves (borrowing the term “dividual” from Gilles Deleuze, which replaces the “individual”). An important aspect of this is that people develop into higher value memes and, despite their apparent individualism, also seem to develop more universalistic, inclusive and non-sectarian values. The people of welfare-jacked Sweden display much higher average value memes than their Afghani fellow world citizens. You will, for instance, find …
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In larger and more complex societies, people seem to develop more individualized personalities, values and worldviews, not less. Or to be more specific and analytically correct, we could say that people in more complex societies develop more dividualized selves (borrowing the term “dividual” from Gilles Deleuze, which replaces the “individual”). An important aspect of this is that people develop into …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Feb 20
What went wrong with the Soviet Union and the communist revolution can hardly be said to hinge upon the wrongdoings or moral flaws of any single person like Joseph Stalin. Or Vladimir Lenin, for that matter. It’s true that Lenin was a kind of authoritarian deviation from mainstream Marxist socialism, but it is also a fact that the only kind of socialist system (in name if nothing else) that has ever existed on any larger scale has been of the authoritarian bent. If you list all of the libertarian socialists, anarchists and left-wing Marxists, these are all theorists and philosophers. …
What went wrong with the Soviet Union and the communist revolution can hardly be said to hinge upon the wrongdoings or moral flaws of any single person like Joseph Stalin. Or Vladimir Lenin, for that matter. It’s true that Lenin was a kind of authoritarian deviation from mainstream Marxist socialism, but it is also a fact that the only kind …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Feb 20
In this five minute video I simplify my new book: Developmental Politics—How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself. There is much more to Developmental Politics than what is covered in this brief video. But as I explain, the need to increase our collective “cultural intelligence” is a central theme of the book. Excerpts are available at this link. The book can be ordered on Amazon at this link. ShareThe post Developmental Politics Simplified in 5-Minutes appeared first on Institute for Cultural Evolution.
In this five minute video I simplify my new book: Developmental Politics—How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself. There is much more to Developmental Politics than what is covered in this brief video. But as I explain, the need to increase our collective “cultural intelligence” is a central theme of the book. Excerpts are available at this …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Feb 20
Neither game denial nor game acceptance is a consciously held perspective. They are, of course, mistakes we make because of unconscious biases and emotional investments in ideas and identities (“I am a radical anarchist!” invites game denial, etc.). They constitute subtle forms of self-deceit. The moment game denial and game acceptance are recognized for what they are it becomes apparent that they cannot be sustained. Everyone will vehemently deny their own game denial or game acceptance and claim to be a responsible “game changer” if confronted. What then, is game change? It is the productive synthesis of game denial and …
Neither game denial nor game acceptance is a consciously held perspective. They are, of course, mistakes we make because of unconscious biases and emotional investments in ideas and identities (“I am a radical anarchist!” invites game denial, etc.). They constitute subtle forms of self-deceit. The moment game denial and game acceptance are recognized for what they are it becomes apparent …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Jan 20
Readers of a conservative bent have probably felt a streak of satisfaction reading my former post on game denial, while the radicals and liberals have cringed and condemned me. So be it. If game denial was the only part of the story, conservatives would simply be right. Deep down they’ve always known, or so they think, that dreamy idealism isn’t quite “real”; that all those liberals are, in a subtle but pervasive sense, brimming with mendacities, filled with pompous self-deceit. There’s a real world out there, a practical world of real people, and real limitations. Ahh. “Like ‘me’, the no-bullshit …
Readers of a conservative bent have probably felt a streak of satisfaction reading my former post on game denial, while the radicals and liberals have cringed and condemned me. So be it. If game denial was the only part of the story, conservatives would simply be right. Deep down they’ve always known, or so they think, that dreamy idealism isn’t …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Jan 20
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Jan 20
Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher. Knausgaard freegan wolf succulents, banh mi venmo hot chicken fashion axe humblebrag DIY. Waistcoat gluten-free cronut cred quinoa. Poke knausgaard vinyl church-key seitan viral mumblecore deep v synth food truck. Ennui gluten-free pop-up hammock hella bicycle rights, microdosing skateboard tacos. Iceland 8-bit XOXO disrupt activated …
Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher. Knausgaard freegan wolf succulents, banh …