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“We are witnessing the rise of the digitalized, globalized, transnational, postindustrial society—and its discontents. The
nationalist resurgence is only that: the outdated, the outgunned, the outmaneuvered. That does not make the
confusion and suffering of the losing side any less real.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
nationalist resurgence is only that: the outdated, the outgunned, the outmaneuvered. That does not make the
confusion and suffering of the losing side any less real.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“I develop if you develop. Even if we don’t agree, we come closer to the truth if we create better dialogues and raise the standards for how we treat one another.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“Ours is a world full of self-deceit, my friend. But it is at the same time a world full of sincere truth seeking, scientific progress and curios late night conversations about the nature of reality and existence.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“Our current society is designed to achieve growth of industrial output and redistributing its
spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of functioning; its institutions must be geared towards achieving more psychological goals. More goals of the soul.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
spoils. Future society must expand upon today’s society’s way of functioning; its institutions must be geared towards achieving more psychological goals. More goals of the soul.”
― The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“Humanity is only capable of worshipping Self — thus, it is necessary, that when people are persuaded to pay honor to an elected Divinity, they should be well and comfortably assured in their own minds that they are but offering homage to an Image of Self placed before them in a deified or heroic form. This satisfies the natural idolatrous cravings of Egotism, and this is all that priests or teachers desire.”
― Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
― Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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