By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Jul 22
A Proposed National Agreement on Abortion By Steve McIntosh, July 10, 2022 Although it may seem counterintuitive, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center may ultimately help secure a woman’s right to an abortion. By extinguishing Roe v. Wade’s constitutional abortion rights, the court has created the acute need for a national compromise, which can lead to landmark legislation on abortion, and other civil rights as well.While I would prefer the preservation of the rights interpreted by Roe, I agree with the court’s majority opinion that the original Roe decision itself was a “raw imposition of judicial power.” As the Dobbs ruling explicitly acknowledges, by placing the issue of abortion …
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A Proposed National Agreement on Abortion By Steve McIntosh, July 10, 2022 Although it may seem counterintuitive, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center may ultimately help secure a woman’s right to an abortion. By extinguishing Roe v. Wade’s constitutional abortion rights, the court has created the acute need for a national compromise, which can lead to landmark legislation on abortion, and other civil …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Jul 22
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 understood this very well. And …
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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 …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Jul 22
In my book The Listening Society, I mention the Danish political party The Alternative (in Danish, “Alternativet”). Although the party never was thoroughly metamodern, it did contain many metamodern elements and showed some very promising signs of becoming a new kind of party. Unfortunately, things didn’t go very well. The Alternative was founded in 2013 by former Danish minister of culture Uffe Elbæk and entered parliament with almost 5% of the votes in 2015. Since then, however, things have only gone downhill: In 2019 The Alternative only got 3% of the votes, and in 2020 the party’s members elected a new leader, Josephine Fock—a controversial choice …
In my book The Listening Society, I mention the Danish political party The Alternative (in Danish, “Alternativet”). Although the party never was thoroughly metamodern, it did contain many metamodern elements and showed some very promising signs of becoming a new kind of party. Unfortunately, things didn’t go very well. The Alternative was founded in 2013 by former Danish minister of culture Uffe Elbæk and entered …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Jun 22
For most of human history, it was not routine for people to brush their teeth. But by the 1960s, majorities of most Western countries had a daily oral hygiene routine. Because oral hygiene is so central to wider health, the mainstreaming of dental care had a huge impact on the global disease burden, reducing the risks and prevalence of diabetes, respiratory infections, death from pneumonia and heart disease. The humble toothbrush played a key role in improving global health and quality of life. But the mainstreaming of toothbrushing took place quite quickly, over just a few decades before and shortly …
For most of human history, it was not routine for people to brush their teeth. But by the 1960s, majorities of most Western countries had a daily oral hygiene routine. Because oral hygiene is so central to wider health, the mainstreaming of dental care had a huge impact on the global disease burden, reducing the risks and prevalence of diabetes, …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jun 22
If you’re a visionary political thinker and agent, your eye may have been caught by one of the following theorists/activists of the future of democracy over the last decade or so: Integrative Governance(by Margaret Stout & Jeannine M. Love) Holistic Democracy(by Jan Inglis) Musical Democracy(by Nancy S. Love) Deep Democracy(by Arny Mindell) Liquid Democracy Sociocracy One way or another, these suggest “Protopian” forms of governance, where it is assumed that there is some kind of development from monarchy etc. → liberal democracy etc. → deeper and more holistic forms of governance. Democracy isn’t a done deal. It’s not an either-or. It can …
If you’re a visionary political thinker and agent, your eye may have been caught by one of the following theorists/activists of the future of democracy over the last decade or so: Integrative Governance(by Margaret Stout & Jeannine M. Love) Holistic Democracy(by Jan Inglis) Musical Democracy(by Nancy S. Love) Deep Democracy(by Arny Mindell) Liquid Democracy Sociocracy One way or another, these …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Jun 22
I am pleased to announce the Institute for Cultural Evolution has published my “win-win-win” policy recommendation on Big Tech Governance: https://www.culturalevolution.org/…/big-tech-governance/ Here are the “three wins”—one for each major American worldview—that this policy recommendation seeks to achieve: Wins Sought for Each Major Worldview As outlined in my policy recommendation, by: 1) convening an annual congressional regulation summit tasked with crafting regulations that integrate the interests all digital economy stakeholders, 2) increasing the technological literacy of lawmakers, and 3) building on the recent first round of regulatory bills, we hope to provide “wins” for each of America’s major cultural worldviews, as …
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I am pleased to announce the Institute for Cultural Evolution has published my “win-win-win” policy recommendation on Big Tech Governance: https://www.culturalevolution.org/…/big-tech-governance/ Here are the “three wins”—one for each major American worldview—that this policy recommendation seeks to achieve: Wins Sought for Each Major Worldview As outlined in my policy recommendation, by: 1) convening an annual congressional regulation summit tasked with crafting …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Jun 22
It’s been a while since I started out in the “saving the world business” and began hanging out with all those pesky hipsters, hippies and hackers—and in doing so, became one of their own. Along the way I’ve made my fair share of experiences, and of course, mistakes, and I’ve wasted a whole lot of time—oceans of wasted time that could have been spent more productively doing something else. Nowadays I’m in such a privileged position that a lot of young people, just starting out on journeys of their own, are coming to me for advice. I see that many …
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It’s been a while since I started out in the “saving the world business” and began hanging out with all those pesky hipsters, hippies and hackers—and in doing so, became one of their own. Along the way I’ve made my fair share of experiences, and of course, mistakes, and I’ve wasted a whole lot of time—oceans of wasted time that …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Jun 22
This is the first, experimental episode of Who Are You, a subseries of the Jim Rutt Show in which Jim has an unplanned conversation with a mystery guest nominated and elected by listeners. In this episode he meets Seth Jordan, a writer focusing on the social ideas of Rudolf Steiner. They discuss Steiner’s view of … Continue reading Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding → The post Who Are You EP 01: Seth Jordan on Social Threefolding appeared first on The Jim Rutt Show.
This is the first, experimental episode of Who Are You, a subseries of the Jim Rutt Show in which Jim has an unplanned conversation with a mystery guest nominated and elected by listeners. In this episode he meets Seth Jordan, a writer focusing on the social ideas of Rudolf Steiner. They discuss Steiner’s view of … Continue reading Who Are …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Jun 22
Whenever everyday people start asking themselves the question… Wait a minute, if people of yesteryear did all sorts of things we find barbaric, from keeping slaves to public flogging, what might future civilizations be equally appalled by in our age? … they almost inevitably come up with some version of: “Well, it’s probably something about how we treat non-human animals”. It probably is. Consider the following. 133 Holocausts per Year We all know that tormenting a cat or a dog is a pretty bad thing. Indeed, we regard it as criminal, highly immoral, and certainly as picking on someone weaker …
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Whenever everyday people start asking themselves the question… Wait a minute, if people of yesteryear did all sorts of things we find barbaric, from keeping slaves to public flogging, what might future civilizations be equally appalled by in our age? … they almost inevitably come up with some version of: “Well, it’s probably something about how we treat non-human animals”. …
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By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 22
→ If we seek to apply a “metamodern” perspective, and we seek to stimulate a higher probability of Protopia in the world, what kind of green or ecological political thinking (“ecologism”) makes sense? → To respond to this question, we must zoom in on a more practical one: If all of our economy builds on growth, how can it be made to shrink so that an ecologically sustainable state is reached (so-called degrowth)? After Deconstruction, Reconstruction Must Follow Much of my writing focuses on “reconstructing” elements of modern society. For instance, I believe that instead of a welfare state, we should …
→ If we seek to apply a “metamodern” perspective, and we seek to stimulate a higher probability of Protopia in the world, what kind of green or ecological political thinking (“ecologism”) makes sense? → To respond to this question, we must zoom in on a more practical one: If all of our economy builds on growth, how can it be …