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Political metamodernism; Freer than libertarianism, more regen than ecologism, more egalitarian than socialism, more prudent than conservatism and more rebellious than anarchism 👀 In short, political metamodernism should help us transcend the left/right political divide to finally build well-functioning societies without biases. In this post: - Problems - Six New Forms of Politics - Memetic Revolution - Towards a Sustainable Future Implementing these six new forms of politics should lead us to less pollution, less destruction, less mindless consumption; and at the same time - surprisingly, more freedom 👀👀👀
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Problems For the most part, issues like people suffering from a lack of basic resources & easily preventable diseases, have been resolved. Alas! New problems emerged: - Global issues like ecological unsustainability - Extreme inequality, money extraction & housing crises - Alienation & lack of meaning leading to all kinds of crazy shit happening
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Emotions run the world Avoidance of negative emotions makes up the invisible machinery that lets everyday life in any society run smoothly and not descend into chaos. Exclusion & rejection activate the same brain patterns as physical pain - pushing people to bitterness & vengefulness. Happy people make more people happy and angry sad people make more people angry and sad. In a sense, there’s an economy of emotions underlying all societies. How other people feel affects us whether we like it or not.
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6 New Forms of Politics Metamodern politics are about building frameworks that that consciously evolve culture itself, shift the games of everyday life, and verify. - Democratization Politics - Updating systems of governance - Community Politics - Improving the quality of human relationships - Existential Politics - Supporting people’s life journeys & mental health - Freedom Politics - Protecting people from all forms of oppression - Empirical Politics - Evaluating policies & institutional practices - Politics of Theory - Co-developing the narratives societies rely on Will these new forms of politics rely on state bureaucracy, nonprofits or the market? All three, actually!
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Democratization Politics The word “democracy” mostly came to mean “representative democracy” where we vote once every 3 years. But really, democracy is a spectrum based on the level of collective intelligence present in the system of governance. Improving it would mean: - Higher transparency, volume & efficiency of information processing - Increased accountability & verifiability - Increased participation of the public in opinion & policy formation State of the Art In the civil & the professional spheres, we see a crazy growth of facilitation techniques: Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy, Theory U, Sociocracy etc. Along with these, we see more & more digital technologies - new voting systems, deliberation apps, feedback systems etc. Overall, shitloads of tools & techniques to improve quality, efficiency, transparency & fairness of governance. But we aren’t seeing any adoption by governments, are we?
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State of the State We went all the way up to Web3 but the political system got stuck in pre-internet era. Social science shows institutions impact societies more than anything. Why is Costa Rica doing ok & Venezuela not? Denmark competitive & Greece not? Institutions. Is it a bad idea to spend like 0.5% of GDP on improving governance? 🤷‍♂️ Threat of Global Governance Most pressing issues are at the global level. This means global governance is growing and we’ll likely see more & more layers of top-down governance at the supra-state level. If we don‘t improve democracy, we’ll be living in a global non-democracy. All accountability & transparency will be lost.
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